Understanding Trade Deficits and Their Impact on Markets

Learn what a trade deficit is, how it affects economies and markets, and why it might not always signal a weak economy.

Forget Trump’s Tariffs. The Real Danger Lies in China’s Trade Surplus.

China has announced a more than trillion-dollar trade surplus that poses a greater danger to world commerce than Trump’s ...

Trump’s tariffs reduced China’s surplus with US — and made it the world’s headache

China's trade surplus hit a record $1.2 trillion in 2025. Trump had always prefaced his tariffs by pointing to China's trade ...
Newsday

FACT FOCUS: Trump blames Biden for the agricultural trade deficit. It's not that simple

As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed responsibility for the U.S. agricultural trade deficit on former President ...
Seeking Alpha

Japan misses surplus forecast with JPY 234.6B trade deficit; exports rise 4.2%, imports hit 8-month high

Japan reported a trade deficit of JPY 234.6 billion in September 2025, significantly missing market expectations, which had forecasted a JPY 22 billion surplus. Despite the miss, the figure narrowed ...
The Times and Democrat

Sanford says any surplus this year should go to old deficit

COLUMBIA — Gov. Mark Sanford urged the Senate on Monday to pump any money from an expected state surplus into repaying a $155 million deficit left from the 2002 budget year. The Senate will begin ...

Current Account records over $ 1.1 billion deficit during 1st half of FY26

Pakistan’s External Current Account Balance recorded a deficit of US$ 1,174 million during the first half of fiscal year 2025-26 in ...