Germany, with bumper current account surplus, frets about car tariffs
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany recorded the world's largest current account surplus for the third year running in 2018 due to strong exports that are vexing U.S. President Donald Trump and raising the risk of U.S. tariffs on German cars.Germany's current account surplus, which measures the flow of goods, services and investments, shrank but was the world's largest last year at $294 billion (£228 billion), followed by Japan with $173 billion, data, from Germany's Ifo institute showed on Tuesday.The..