As seen through the foreign currency exchange, the American still wants a trade deficit for the same reasons she did before in the bartering system.

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The Japanese could trade the dollars on the foreign exchange to receive yen from any country that has a trade deficit with America and wants more dollars to buy American goods.

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Price-wise, Alex Thorndike, senior trader for precious metals and foreign exchange with MKS Capital, said PGMs, particularly palladium, are still gaining ground from the projected supply deficit announced by Johnson Matthey last month.

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