NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's current account deficit in the October-December quarter narrowed to $7.1 billion, or 1.3 percent of gross domestic product, from $8.7 billion, or 1.7 percent of GDP a quarter earlier, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Monday.
The balance of payments surplus in October-December was $4.1 billion, compared to a deficit of $856 million in July-September, according to RBI.
(Reporting by Suvashree Dey Choudhury, Neha Dasgupta, and Swati Bhat; Editing by Rafael Nam)
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