Sentences with phrase «us trade balance»

This would allow Ontario to counter the growing trade balance with Mexico by opening other opportunities in Latin America and pressure Mexico to improve its trade balance with Canada.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

This should influence China to improve the trade balance with Ontario so that it may maintain the strong links to Ontario that it has aggressively pursued in recent years.

The surplus was still down 47 percent from a year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's decline has pushed up costs of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.

Imports rose 11.9 percent in the year to February, a fourth straight increase but below expectations of a 15.1 percent rise, leaving the trade balance in a deficit for the eighth consecutive month.

A country's trade balance typically worsens after the depreciation of its currency before any subsequent rise in exports.

Japan's trade balance for February, which was released on Thursday, is a reflection of the less favorable implications of a rapidly depreciating currency, which has fallen over 22 percent against the greenback in the past six months.

It is the dominant contributor to our favorable trade balance, it is the largest private - sector investor in the national economy, and it accounts for about one - quarter of all tangible national wealth.

Republican lawmakers argue that the BAT would offset the price increase since the shift in the trade balance would cause the dollar to strengthen, improving the purchasing power of Americans and scaling back the effect on consumers.

More than half of the vehicles made in the United States by German carmakers are exported, the VDA added, supporting the U.S. foreign trade balance.

While China's overall trade balance went into the red during March, it's trade balance with the United States did not.

CNBC's Rick Santelli reports the latest read on productivity, initial jobless claims and trade balance.

«We assessed what we could gain from it (a «Frexit»),» Rachline told CNBC, saying that the Front National wants to implement a strategy of «smart protectionism» to reduce unemployment figures and the country's trade balance deficit.

Another approach is to look at fundamental economic factors affecting a country's trade surplus or deficit and evaluating whether the actual trade balance is what one would expect given those factors.

Speaking alongside Xi in the Chinese capital, Trump also said it was disappointing that his predecessors had let the bilateral trade balance get out of kilter.

Between 1993 and 2014, the U.S. - Mexico trade balance swung from a $ 1.7 billion U.S. surplus to a $ 54 billion deficit.

Smaller - than - expected announcements of the German current account and trade balance were associated with rising yields at both ends of the yield curve.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's FOMC Meeting Statement followed by reports tomorrow on UK PMI, Eurozone PPI, CPI, US Challenger Job Cuts, Productivity, Unit Labor Costs, Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, Markit Services PMI, ISM Services, Durable Goods and Factory Orders for near term direction.

The market is expected to see the weekly initial jobless claims data and the trade balance in the US with focus on Friday's non-farm payroll report.

In reply, Li said China was working hard to promote a trade balance, with Chinese tourism to Europe now far greater than EU tourism in China.

Inflation and interest rates have major ramifications for the general economy, as these heavily influence employment, consumer spending, business investment, currency strength and trade balances.

That suggests it could be critical for Mr. Trudeau to convince Mr. Trump that he should consider Canadian oil like U.S. oil — in other words, that the U.S. should not count Canadian oil as an import when they consider their trade balance.

«We expect a stronger dollar and weaker growth abroad, most notably in Europe, will take a greater toll on the trade balance and overall growth in the economy,» said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial in Chicago.

The Aussie's bounce is being attributed to yesterday's better - than - expected trade balance and building approvals reports.

This helps explain the deteriorating U.S. industrial trade balance as the economy has become financialized.

That occurs when a currency crashes against other currencies, usually by trying to pay debts that its trade balance can't cover.

Rising commodity prices associated with the beginning of the Korean War had significantly strengthened Canada's trade balance with the United States, and the concurrent economic recovery in Europe had further boosted demand for Canadian exports.

Fundamentals: The Aussie Dollar saw rejuvenated weakness today despite a solid read on Trade Balance data last night.

Follow the money — the capital account — not just the individual trade balances.

More importantly for his economic programme, higher interest rates in the US will act like a honeypot for foreign investors... [S] ucking in foreign cash has a price and that is an expensive dollar and worsening trade balance....

As I discuss in Appendix 1, economists who try to explain the sources of trade imbalances by analyzing bilateral trade balances are almost always only confusing the discussion.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

The change in the two countries» trade balance has absolutely no reason to show up in their bilateral trade numbers.

«Since we expect that: 1) the Chinese economy will continue to grow (cumulative GDP in current prices), 2) the export arbitrage is not showing any signs of contraction and 3) imports of steel will remain steady at about 1.2 million tons - per - month, we can safely assume that steel exports of 7.2 million tons - per - month and therefore a net trade balance of about 6 million tons - per - month will be around for a while.»

Since the current account balance is almost wholly driven by the trade balance, limiting the capital account surplus must limit the trade deficit.

Let's assume for a minute that the United States had a trade balance with every country — which is what Trump said bilaterally he wants to achieve.

The first week of April wasn't as great as I would wish, we rolled a few trades and the overall trade balance was negative.

The U.S. trade deficit is a major reason President Donald Trump promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), even though economists generally agree that a bilateral trade balance is not directly linked to trade policy.

A country's trade balance consisted of the sum of all its various bilateral trade imbalances, and net flows of capital were primarily driven by trade finance.

This may seem counterintuitive, but only to those for whom international trade is the sum of independent bilateral trade balances.

i am struggling to understand the arguments around the effect of capital account on trade balance.

The broad set of Trump's fiscal measures and Republican legislative priorities should be supportive of a strong U.S. dollar, either by boosting growth and tighter monetary policy — or by contributing to an improved trade balance (through looser regulation in the energy sector and / or border adjustments).

The economics calendar will be busy Thursday, with the weekly report on initial jobless claims, as well as readings on worker productivity and the trade balance are all due at 8:30 AM ET (1230GMT).

However, the international shipment of non-U.S. goods through the United States can make standard measures of bilateral trade balances potentially misleading.

By raising its administered rates, the Fed encourages other financial institutions to maintain larger balances with it, instead of trading those balances for other interest - earning assets.

Moreover, the trade balance is changing.

It does, however, control the federal funds rate that banks use when trading balances with one another in the short term.

-LRB-...) In South Korea, manufacturing contracted for the first time in five months in June and exports fell for the first time since February — though an even larger fall in imports kept Seoul's trade balance in surplus.

«What I have said insistently in my conversations with my colleagues is that we're delighted to review trade balances provided that we focus on how to improve them by expanding commerce, not by reducing it,» he said.

But his tax cuts increase the budget deficit and the country's reliance on foreign capital, almost guaranteeing a worsening trade balance.