Fears about the US current account deficit yesterday continued to weigh on the dollar.

在昨天的交易中，市场对美国经常账户赤字的忧虑仍然对美元构成压力。

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In a global slowdown, the chances of shrinking the US current account deficit, instead, were small.

而在全球经济滑坡时，美国经常账户赤字减少的概率非常小。

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At the root of the dollar's decline is the view that the us current account deficit is unsustainable.

美元下跌的根源，是人们认为美国经常账户赤字无法持续。

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Economic policymakers typically argue that the US current account deficit, the fact that the nation imports more than it exports, is sustainable because it has a large internal market.

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Even more worrying, in the short term, is that alarming statistic I flagged up last week: the Office for Budget Responsibility expects us to run a current account deficit of 4% of GDP in 2012.

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That is in contrast with the US, with its large current account deficit and its borrowing from China.

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