Sentence examples for a trade gap from inspiring English sources

The mood on Wall Street and in Europe was also edgy until the Bundesbank and the Fed laid to rest, for the moment, the prospect of interest-rate rises.America's trade deficit in goods and services fell by an unexpected 14.5% in June as exports reached a record and imports fell for the first time in eight months, leaving a trade gap of $8.2 billion.

IT IS an unnerving collection of symptoms: a fast-growing Asian economy with a big public-sector deficit, a widening trade gap and a slumping currency.

Analysts are concerned that a tight labor market, coupled with a weaker dollar and a widening trade gap, could conspire to raise the ghost of inflation.

The wider deficit came as a surprise to economists who had forecast a smaller trade gap because of lower global oil prices.

The truth is that the Tory "recovery" is founded on high personal debt, a consumer bubble, artificially inflated housing assets and a disastrous trade gap – as well as grotesque inequality and destitution.

Surely this would be far better than copying the current Tory policy of building UK prosperity upon a consumerist chimera of high personal debt, artificially inflated housing assets and a disastrous trade gap?

Among the chief culprits was a widening trade gap.

The British Government is anxious to close a huge trade gap with the world's most populous nation.

Revisions to September's data showed a narrower trade gap than previously reported and suggested the contribution from trade was probably slightly bigger.

Much of Germany's second-quarter GDP growth came from trade, even as a wider trade gap sapped America's economy.

While a shrinking trade gap bodes well for fourth-quarter economic output, exports and imports both declined, a sign of some softening in domestic and overseas demand.