Sentence examples for deficit widens from inspiring English sources

Oddly, Britain's recovery could mean its exporters face a tougher time, and the deficit widens further.

To sustain the current arrangement, they will have to keep buying more and more dollars as America's current-account deficit widens.

As it and the broader current account deficit widens, America needs to attract more investment from abroad to balance its books.

As well as curbing exports, this could also lift imports if some car models are only made abroad.If Japan's trade deficit widens, the fate of its current-account surplus will depend on foreign-investment income (interest payments, profits and dividends).

Economic boffins have long promised that the region's financial woes would affect America, by reducing demand for American exports and increasing imports as the dollar strengthened.That began to happen during the first quarter of this year, when a rising trade imbalance proved a modest counterbalance to booming domestic demand, and its effect is intensifying as the trade deficit widens.

The unemployment rate climbs, the budget deficit widens because of automatic stabilizers, home prices keep falling, bank losses are much larger and protectionist pressures come to a boil.

[Page A1.] Trade Deficit Widens as Exports Fall The United States trade deficit widened in June as slower growth abroad and a strengthening dollar pushed exports to their lowest level in 16 months, the government said.

[C14.] United States Trade Deficit Widens The United States trade deficit widened to a record in March as surging demand for oil, automobiles and other imports overpowered a second consecutive monthly increase in exports, Commerce Department figures showed.

D1 BUSINESS DAY C1-15 U.S. Trade Deficit Widens The United States trade deficit widened by a surprisingly large 11percentt in September, reflecting both a surge in energy imports after Hurricane Katrina and a steep drop in airplane exports because of a strike, the government reported.

[C12.] Trade Deficit Widens to a Record The United States trade deficit widened to a record $31.9 billion in July from $29.8 billion in June as demand for autos, oil and Chinese toys and clothes pushed imports to their highest level ever, government figures showed.

The budget deficit widened in October.