Trade Gap Shrinks on Oil, Sign of Growing Energy Independence
April 05, 2013 at 15:27 PM EDT
The trade deficit shrank on expanding exports in February, with the headline metric improving to -$43 billion from -$44.5 billion in January. (The trade deficit is negative when we import more than we export; a smaller negative number is beneficial to U.S. economic growth, as imports are a subtraction from