Japan's Sept trade surplus up 62.7pc

Japan's trade surplus in September jumped 62.7 percent from a year earlier on strong exports of automobiles and lower imports of oil, the government said Wednesday.
The surplus came to 1,637.8 billion yen (14.3 billion dollars), higher than economists' average forecast for a surplus of some 1,460 billion yen.
Exports rose 6.5 percent to 7,270.4 billion yen to score year-on-year growth for the 46th consecutive month.