The US trade balance with the rest of the world collapsed to its largest deficit ever in March.
The gap in goods and services trade grew 22.3% to $109.8 billion, Commerce Department data showed Wednesday (this was even worse than the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists which called for a $107.1 billion deficit). Source: Bloomberg
Obviously this is backward-looking and represents one of the key drivers of Q1’s negative GDP print (net exports subtracted 3.2 percentage points from GDP, government figures showed last week). Also of note is that the figures aren’t adjusted for inflation.
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