Mitchell Hartman
speaker
1,202 appearances
42 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6d ago
Mitchell Hartman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Still, the trade deficit did widen a bit in March.
And that's because while exports rose, imports rose even more, driven by demand for computer equipment to run AI data centers, also passenger vehicles and other consumer products.
which is good news, says nationwide economist Oren Klatchken.
The trade deficit is likely to hold pretty steady in coming months, predicts Mary Lovely at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Tariffs aren't causing wild swings in import flows like they did last year, and U.S.
demand for imports remains strong.
China has fallen from the top exporter to the U.S.
to number four, behind number one Taiwan, which supplies us with AI equipment, and also Vietnam and Mexico, where companies are moving more production to supply the U.S.
market.
I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.
Wilkins says more of those contracts should come if the rising cost of building supplies ever starts to ease.
I'm Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace.
Delta's certainly not immune to developments in the Strait of Hormuz and soaring jet fuel prices, says analyst Nicholas Owens at Morningstar.
They did say they had $2 billion of incremental fuel cost, and the price per gallon is almost double what it was a year ago.
And the airline's responding aggressively, says Alex Faciano at CFRA Research.
And that's not likely to drive away too many customers, says Nicholas Owens at Morningstar.
Delta is the most profitable North American airline, and that gives them some cushion to absorb the temporary hit from spike in fuel cost.
A big reason is Delta's relatively affluent customer base.
In Q1, its revenue at the front of the plane, so the fancy seats, was up 14%.
They're seeing persistent demand.
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