By Dan Burns Aug 27 (Reuters) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits for the first time fell for a second ...

The US advance international trade in goods deficit widened to $118.81 billion in July from $101.41 billion in June, according to data released by the US Census Bureau. This was a wider gap than the ...

Mumbai, Aug. 28 -- The United States trade deficit in goods rose by 17.2% from June to $118.8 billion in July, according to a preliminary report by the Census Bureau released on Thursday. Exports fell ...

One factor is the continuing multibillion-dollar AI investments by Google parent Alphabet, Facebook parent Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and others.

The US merchandise-trade deficit widened in July to the highest since March 2025, as it grew more than 17% from the prior ...

— The U.S. goods trade deficit is widening as companies take advantage of the Trump administration’s pivot to alternative tariff authorities. — July is shaping up to be a packed month for trade policy ...

The U.S. trade deficit in goods narrowed in June amid a broad decline in imports, but the improvement was probably insufficient to prevent trade from again subtracting from economic growth in the ...

The United States trade deficit has jumped to $77.6bn in May on rising imports, driven by goods that include pharmaceuticals, mobile phones and semiconductors. Imports ticked up 3.3 percent from April ...

The U.S. fiscal trajectory is unsustainable, with debt-to-GDP projected to reach 123% by 2036 and 251% within 30 years.

Some policymakers have prioritized reducing the U.S. trade deficit, arguing that Americans are losing on trade, and pointing to the deficit as evidence. But economists disagree on whether it actually ...