Eurozone goods exports kept rising in September

The single currency’s bloc sales of goods overseas continued to rise in September.

The Eurozone’s trade surplus increased to €20.1bn in September after a print of €19.0bn in the month before, according to figures from Eurostat.

In seasonally adjusted terms exports rose 1.1% to reach €167.9bn while imports did so by 0.5% to hit €147.8bn.

Economists had pencilled in a reading of €19.3bn.

In non-seasonally adjusted terms, exports jumped by 6% over the first nine months of the year hitting €1,519.2bn, versus a 2% rise in purchases of foreign goods to €1,342.3bn.

That drove an improvement in the surplus with the rest of the world to €176.9bn from €118.1bn.

Intra-euro trade advanced 3% to €1,261.8bn.

Germany's trade surplus improved to €15.4bn in September from €15.2bn in the month before, alongside a €0.5bn jump in Italy's surplus to €2.7bn, while France's declined to €2.0bn from €2.4bn.