You know what also our next guest can perhaps comment on it as well. The US economy did grow at a much stronger than expected pace in the second quarter powered by a turnaround in the trade balance and renewed consumer strength. That's from the first read of Q2 GDP.Joining us now with first reaction from the White House is the National Economic Council Director Kevin Hasset. Uh Kevin, good to have you this morning. Obviously a nice GD nice GDP number.Um, I'm curious as to get your thoughts in terms of what ...

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V i e w p o i n t | 03 Jul 2025 11:49:54 ET │ 10 pages US Economics Falling imports from China offset elsewhere CITI'S TAKE The trade balance widened moderately in May to -$71.5 billion with a drop in exports and imports essentially flat on the month. Part of the drop in exports was due to gold, which will not impact GDP growth. Net exports are still likely to be a substantial boost to GDP growth in Q2. Imports from China continued to plunge as tariffs in April and half of May were prohibitively high. This ...

Durable goods orders on a headline basis hasn't crossed yet, but ex transportation up half a percent. The capital goods orders not defense ex air, what we call core durables up 1.7% after falling 1.5% last month. So this is good news.Business is still spending. We will have to see what the breakdown is there. Here's jobless claims.They fall to 236,000 from 246,000 last month. Last week there were a lot of people who thought this may be a seasonal adjustment problem. That pushed claims up in recent weeks bec ...

Rick Santelli is standing by at the CME in Chicago. And uh Rick, take it away. Let's see the numbers.Yes. And there are a lot of numbers, so we're going to go slow. And let's start with well, let's start with durable goods, shall we.On durable good orders, we're expecting a number that's going to be somewhere in the vicinity of up 8 to 8 and a half% on a preliminary, not coming across the screen. So, we're going to switch gears. We're going to look at the trade balance minus 96.6% billion.So the good news t ...