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What else did you expect?
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Figure 1: US exports of goods and services (black, left log scale), GDPNow nowcast (light blue square, left log scale), both in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR; export weighted rest-of-world GDP, 2005=100 (red, right scale). NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: BEA 2025Q1 3rd release, Atlanta Fed, Dallas Fed, NBER and author’s calculations.
So in Q1, RoW GDP rose but real US exports fell; more telling, the dollar depreciated in inflation adjusted term from January to March, which would have in normal times induced an increase in exports…(dollar depreciation January to June is 6.5% in log terms).
The Atlanta Fed’s 7/25 nowcast indicates 3.3% q/q annualized (0.9% q/q) decline in Q2 real exports (incorporates monthly trade data through May’s numbers).
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