International Trade (May)

The modest narrowing in the trade deficit to $48.7bn in May, from $50.6bn, was mainly due to a price-related drop in the cost of imported oil, so there is no reason to believe that second-quarter real GDP growth was any stronger than the 1.5% to 2.0% annualised that we already had pencilled in.

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