The key here is that the trade data is one of the inputs in GDP.
China issues its monthly trade data on Friday, and that data, too, will be closely monitored.
This is why it is important to analyze tick trade data in addition to fundamentals.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report and wholesale trade data.
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Over the weekend September trade data will be released, along with the consumer and producer price indexes.
Macroeconomic Advisers adjusted its expected third-quarter growth rate to 2.4% from 3% after the trade data appeared.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report and monthly wholesale trade data.
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The Shanghai Composite Index recouped early losses to end the session flat at 2226.13 as investors digested China's latest trade data.
The calendar is crowded next week with economic reports, starting with international-trade data on Tuesday, followed by retail-sales data on Wednesday.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the trade deficit report and wholesale trade data.
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December trade data for precious metals showed a continuation of recent trends.
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That's because December trade data, which wasn't available when the government calculated its first estimate for fourth-quarter growth, showed solid growth in exports.
In February, the most recent month for which trade data are available, the dollar was 4.5% cheaper in real terms than a year earlier.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the weekly DOE crude oil stocks report, and monthly wholesale trade data.
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Analysis of the news and trade data from yesterday has not changed the potential short position on BlackBerry and continuation of the short-term long trade on Apple.
Still, investors' confidence may be tested by changeable trade data.
Many resource-sector stocks in the region ended lower on a sharp recent sell-off in commodities, and concerns about demand from China, concerns made worse by the March trade data.
China's Shanghai Composite shed 1%, after running up 3.2% over the previous two sessions, ahead of key trade data on Friday and inflation and industrial numbers over the weekend.
But in 2010 alone, China's trade with Africa expanded by more than 43%, according to official Chinese trade data, and it replaced the U.S. as Africa's largest trade partner.
On the same day as the trade data were published, April 28th, came the Confederation of British Industry's quarterly industrial trends survey covering 951 manufacturers, 659 of them exporters.
However, some analysts tempered the enthusiasm, saying trade data for China is unpredictable at the beginning of the year because of the Lunar New Year holiday when many factories shut down.
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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the producer price index, retail sales, manufacturing and trade data, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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Lucas said the markets were probably overreacting to the China growth news, but it creates a disquieting picture when coupled with last week's trade data showing some weakness in the country's exports.
"Today's trade data release has not instilled any more confidence in either the quality of data or the strength of the recovery, " said IHS Global Insight analyst Alistair Thornton in a report.
China's trade data are volatile in the early months of each year as companies shut down for several weeks during the Lunar New Year and then buy raw materials to resume production.
After heavy selling all morning, trade data show the market began to be flooded with sell orders as large as 12 contracts at a time while buy orders were less than half that level.
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