In response to the unexpected narrowing in the trade deficit in February, we have raised our estimate for first-quarter GDP growth to 2.5% annualised, from 2.0%. Meanwhile, we doubt that that the spike in the number of initial jobless claims last week is a sign that jobs growth is faltering.
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