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Trade data provide cold comfort

The slight easing in the y/y contraction in goods exports and imports in May supports evidence from elsewhere that the worst has now passed for the economy. But both remain extremely weak, and a sharp improvement appears unlikely as external and domestic demand recovers only gradually.

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