trade balance

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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

A big increase in imports of digital trade equipment also swung the trade balance toward a greater deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Other major markets for Chinese products, such as the European Union, are alarmed by the imbalance in their trade balance with China.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Because, during these last two years of world upheaval we have rolled up the immense favourable trade balance of over three billion dollars.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick