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U.K. Trade Balance

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Jan 16, 2025

Actual

-19.31B

Forecast

-18.00B

-19.33B

The Trade Balance measures the difference in value between imported and exported goods and services over the reported period. A positive number indicates that more goods and services were exported than imported.

A higher than expected reading should be taken as positive/bullish for the GBP, while a lower than expected reading should be taken as negative/bearish for the GBP.

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Source: Office for National Statistics

Release Date	Time	Actual	Forecast	Previous
Jan 16, 2025 (Nov)	02:00	-19.31B	-18.00B	-19.33B
Dec 13, 2024 (Oct)	02:00	-18.97B	-16.10B	-16.32B
Nov 15, 2024 (Sep)	02:00	-16.32B	-15.70B	-15.21B
Oct 11, 2024 (Aug)	01:00	-15.06B	-18.80B	-18.87B
Sep 11, 2024 (Jul)	01:00	-20.00B	-18.00B	-18.89B
Aug 15, 2024 (Jun)	01:00	-18.89B	-16.00B	-18.59B

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Alexey No Jan 11, 2017 3:20AM ET

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Why English pound sterling is so high if U.K. Trade Balance is constantly negative?. .

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Qamar Shahzad Jul 08, 2016 3:33AM ET

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https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/

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Deep Rana Jul 10, 2014 5:57AM ET

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I am new in trading world which website can tell me what happened according to the finance calender announcements.

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Yanto Wijaya Jul 10, 2014 5:57AM ET

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you can't depend on news since sometime when news tell good the problem the price move down... so the best is you must train your technical skill

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The price went in the opposite direction despite good news on the report.

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francois delta Apr 09, 2014 4:56AM ET

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its the finance world

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Ted Buckler Apr 09, 2014 4:56AM ET

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Yes, it's odd. Investors seem to be shrugging it off.

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