UK trade balance lower than forecast

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Source: Investing.com
This Friday the data regarding the UK's trade balance was released and revealed to be worse than forecast. National Statistics in the UK reported that UK's trade balance dropped to -9.41 from the previous month's -9.15 (this was revised from -9.20). Analysts had forecast it to improve to -8.80 in July.  
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