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Trade Deficit: No shock to trend

Posted July 13, 2011 by Editor

[private][private]The May international trade deficit widens by a much more than expected $6.6 billion (Consensus: widen $0.3 billion; Decision Economics: widen $1.0 billion) from a little revised April level. The surprise will clearly tend to pull Q2 GDP forecasts down–probably by a substantial fraction of one percentage point.
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