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Thailand posts record-high current account deficit in April as economy slows

Tourists visit Wat Arun, or the Temple of Dawn, on April 27. Foreign arrivals fell in April. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

Thailand posted a record-high current account deficit of $7.6 ​billion in April, with economic growth ‌slowing from the previous month from the impacts of the Middle East war and expected to get weaker, the Bank of Thailand said on Friday.

The record-high deficit was not a worry yet and ​should be temporary, Assistant ⁠Governor Chayawadee Chai-anant said, adding the Iran war was expected to end in the middle of the year.

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