Euro zone posts February trade surplus on lower im

By Ethan Bilby BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone's trade surplus grew in February, but the positive balance was helped by lower demand for imports rather than export growth, data from the European Union statistics office Eurostat showed on Monday. The trade surplus for the 17 countries sharing the euro, unadjusted for seasonal swings, was 10.4 billion euros in February. This was greater than the 3.0 billion surplus consensus forecast of economists polled by Reuters. The statistics office also revised January's figure to a deeper deficit of 4.7 billion euros, from a previous 3.9 billion. ...