{"id":44058,"date":"2021-04-07T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=44058"},"modified":"2021-04-08T01:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:32:54","slug":"u-s-trade-deficit-hits-new-high-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/u-s-trade-deficit-hits-new-high-in-february\/04\/07\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Trade Deficit Hits New High in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trade in the United States rose to a new record high in February, data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that the balance of trade recorded a 4.8% surge in deficit to a new record level of $71.1 billion in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American exports decreased by 2.6% to $187.3 billion, with goods exports falling by 3.5% to $131.1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, imports saw a rise decline of 0.7% to $258.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjusted for inflation, the goods trade deficit stands at a record $99.1 billion in February, compared with $96.1 billion in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade in the United States rose to a new record high in February, data showed on Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that the balance of trade recorded a 4.8% surge in deficit to a new record level of $71.1 billion in February. American exports decreased by 2.6% to $187.3 billion, with goods exports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6858],"class_list":["post-44058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44059,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44058\/revisions\/44059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}