<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/526910676bb3f77270bc2517-1200-924/shipping-container-vessel-1.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="shipping container vessel" width="480" /><p class="source">AP</p><p class="caption">The containership "Zim Antwerp I" anchored at the Tollerort Container Terminal in the port of Hamburg, northern Germany, on Aug. 29, 2002. German authorities impounded the ship saying it was sailing for an Israeli shipping company under a Panamanian flag and carried military equipment said to be headed for Iran. Customs officials said the two containers would be sent back to Israel as German law forbids the export of military equipment to Iran.</p></div><p></p></div>International <keyword id="44844" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Trade">trade</keyword> data for August prints at 8:30.</p>
<p>Expectations are for an increase in the trade deficit of $300 million to $39.4 billion.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-trade-balance-august-2013-10#ixzz2idoG8FI1">Wells Fargo's John Silvia commented earlier this month</a>: "After smoothing out the unusually noisy data, the trade deficit appears to have been relatively flat during the three months leading up to July. However, when looking over the past two years, the deficit seems to be narrowing in nominal terms. Some of this can be attributed to rising domestic production of petroleum and related products. As a result, more oil has been sent abroad, keeping exports from falling amid global economic weakness. More importantly, rising domestic production reduces U.S. demand for foreign oil and places downward pressure on imports. Despite this new trend, the United States still imported three times more petroleum products than it exported in July, so higher oil prices in August likely boosted imports more than exports. At the same time, persistent troubles across much of Europe and weakness in several emerging markets has restrained export growth and should contribute to the trade deficit widening to $40.6 billion."</p>
<p>The YOY balance has been slowly improving since 2012:</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/52690f4a6bb3f77f70bc2510-630-377/intl trade.png" border="0" alt="international trade" /><p class="source"><a href="http://mam.econoday.com/byshoweventfull.asp?fid=456109&amp;cust=mam">Econoday</a></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
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Here Comes US Trade Data... 

<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em;"><table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/50f8875becad046b78000015-400-303/mcfly2.png" border="0" alt="mcfly back to the future" /></div><p class="source"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlEFqR4SaVA">Youtube</a></p><p class="caption">Back To The Future 2</p></td></tr></table>The value of the Japanese dollar is falling again, now that new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-shinzo-abes-economic-experiment-2013-1">pledged to reinflate the country by instructing the country's central bank to make asset purchases.</a></p>
<p>It's now pretty inconceivable that a Japanese company would be able to snap up American corporate assets as investments.  </p>
<p>In the eighties, it was a fact of life.</p>
<p>Starting with a relative trickle at the beginning of the decade, Japanese conglomerates went on an epic buying spree in America during the latter half of the decade after both countries agreed to revalue their currencies.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em;">The trend became so widespread that the "corporate Japanese takeover" concept began leaking into American culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em;">Via Google News, we now take you on a tour of this singular moment in the life of both countries...</span></p>

The True Story Of The 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America

<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:335px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/504f7a12eab8ea4a51000002-590-443/china-shio.jpg?maxX=335&amp;maxY=251" border="0" alt="china ship cargo" width="335" height="251" /></div><p class="source"><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-golden-gate-panama-cargo-ship-navigates-its-way-into-news-photo/107189665">Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images</a></p></div></p>
<p>UPDATE:</p>
<p>Big number on the <keyword id="44844" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Trade">trade</keyword> deficit.</p>
<p>In November, the trade deficit came in at $48.7 billion.</p>
<p>That's well wider than the $41.8 billion that was expected.</p>
<p>The full report can be found <a href="http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>-------------------------------</p>
<p>EARLIER: The one big economic datapoint of the day: The trade balance.</p>
<p>Analysts are expecting a trade deficit of $41.8 billion, which is a slight narrowing of $42.2 billion that was last month.</p>
<p>Remember, the wider the trade deficit, the worst it is for GDP, but on the other hand, the wider the trade deficit, the more trade and economic activity there is typically. So it cuts both ways.</p>
<p>We'll have the number here LIVE at 8:30 AM ET.</p>

Trade Deficit Comes In Way Wider Than Expected At $48.7 Billion

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5203eb96eab8ea0a6d000001-589-441/brazil-36.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="brazil" width="480" /><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sofakingon/3584912693/in/photostream/">www.flickr.com</a></p></div><p></p></div>Brazilians are probably blasting the celebratory samba music after last night's rosy <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/china-july-trade-grows-more-than-expected-2013-8">Chinese trade numbers </a>(if you believe in that sort of thing). Some of the country's  most important stocks are up on the news after months of misery.</p>
<p>To review: <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword> reported that exports jumped 5.1% year-over-year - stronger than the 2.0% economists expected - and imports surged 10.9%, surging past expectations for 1.0% growth.</p>
<p>That means relief for <keyword id="6355226" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Brazil">Brazil</keyword>, whose <keyword id="6357440" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="stock-market">stock market</keyword>, Sao Paolo's Ibovespa, <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=BVSP+Interactive#symbol=bvsp;range=ytd;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;">has fallen 24% year to date.</a> The almost 300 publicly traded stocks in Brazil have lost $203 billion year to date.</p>
<p>This weekend, one of the country's former Central Bank Presidents, Arminio Fraga, said that decline was, in part, due to weakened <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/08/02/eike-batista-cant-be-blamed-for-brazils-stock-market-losses-ex-central-banker-fraga/">Chinese demand for Brazilian raw materials.</a></p>
<p>And today, on all that China trade number positivity, <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PBR">the Ibovespa has gained 4.4%.</a> The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (EWZ) - an ETF - that was getting <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/brazil-etf-falls-amid-protests-2013-6">pummeled earlier this summer during protests</a> is rallying too. <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EWZ">It's up 3.5%</a></p>
<p>Over a quarter of EWZ's weight is made up by two stocks - <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q;_ylt=AmYiqceUBmfsdXmUnzOkelKG684F?uhb=uhb2&amp;fr=yfinanceheader_test2&amp;type=2button&amp;s=VALE%2C">Vale,  a mining company</a> that sells a lot of iron ore to China, and <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PBR">Petrobras, the state oil and gas company</a>. Both are rallying today up over 4.5%.</p>
<p>Now you may be saying to yourself - 4%... who cares? To put in perspective, both companies have had miserable 2013s. Petrobras is still <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=PBR+Interactive#symbol=pbr;range=ytd;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;">down 31% year to date</a>, and Vale is down <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=VALE+Interactive#symbol=vale;range=ytd;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;">34% year to date</a>.</p>
<p>So every little bit helps.</p>

Brazil Is Desperately Hoping Those Crazy China Trade Numbers Are True

<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5114435069bedde01800000a-590-443/china-cargo-1.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="china cargo ship" width="400" height="300" /></div><p class="source"><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-hyundai-goodwill-panama-cargo-ship-docks-into-shenzhen-news-photo/107189657">Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images</a></p></div>December <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/december-chinese-trade-data-chart-2013-1">trade data surged past expectations</a>, with <keyword id="35091" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="imports">imports</keyword> rising six percent and exports surging 14.1 percent on the year.</p>
<p>This time around analysts polled by Bloomberg have really hiked up their forecasts.</p>
<p>They now expect imports to surge 23.5 percent, and exports to climb 17.5 percent on the year. Trade balance is expected to narrow to $24.7 billion.</p>
<p>Trade data is widely considered to be one of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/most-reliable-chinese-economic-indicators-2013-1">most reliable economic indicators</a> in <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword>. And hard landing watchers <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-imports-hard-landing-watchers-2013-1">closely track import data</a> because it centers on investments and has a domestic demand component to it.</p>
<p>But seasonality is expected to be a huge factor behind the strong January trade numbers which is why analysts are warning about giving them too much weight.</p>
<p>"They could be heavily distorted by the [Chinese New Year] holidays (note there are 22 working days in Jan this year versus 17 in Jan last year)," writes Bank of America's Ting Lu in a note to clients.</p>
<p>"We also suggest investors to take a pinch of salt on the actual readings in these two months. A more sensible approach is to read Jan and Feb together, just as China’s NBS does on major economic data such as IP and FAI." He is looking for exports to rise 26.5 percent and imports to rise 24.2 percent, above consensus.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Helen Qiao at Morgan Stanley warns that as the effect of the Lunar New Year holidays wears off we should be "cautious on the outlook for an export growth recovery, especially in view of the sluggish growth in developed market economies."</p>
<p>Qiao is looking for exports to rise 16 percent year-over-year (YoY), imports to rise 18 percent, and for the trade surplus to narrow to $29 billion.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, China will also be releasing its inflation data in a few hours. Analysts polled by Bloomberg are look for consumer prices to rise 2 percent on the year, and for producer prices (PPI) to decline 1.6 percent. This comes right after the <a href="http://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1145149/inflation-likely-cast-pall-over-china-2013">People's Bank of China warned </a>that it would now prioritize curbing inflation. </p>
<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-stats-versus-rest-of-the-world-2013-2">10 Ways Chinese Manufacturing Makes The Rest Of The World Look Tiny &gt;</a></strong></p>

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