trade balance

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Durable goods orders for March, delayed Feb. housing starts and the trade balance for March will be released at 8:30 a.m.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

The yen was mixed against other G-10 and Asian currencies in early trade, but may weaken on the prospect that rising oil prices could worsen Japan’s trade balance, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

America ran a balance-of-payments deficit throughout the 1950s and ’60s, even though the trade balance was a surplus in most years before 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Weekly jobless claims, the Philly Fed manufacturing survey and the U.S. trade balance are all due at 8:30 a.m.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

Investor confidence was strong at yearend 2001, in part because of the strong recovery in the trade balance.

From The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency