The struggles of the export-orientated manufacturing sector, which has been hit by the dollar’s surge and the weakness of global demand, have been getting most of the attention this week, but today's data releases revealed that the trade deficit actually narrowed in July, while the much bigger non-manufacturing sector is growing at a very rapid clip.
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