The widening in the trade deficit to $46.6bn in December, from $39.8bn, may have wrong-footed the markets (the consensus forecast was $38.0bn). But it was broadly in line with the assumptions that the BEA made for fourth-quarter GDP growth, so the latter should remain unrevised at 2.6% annualised.
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