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The U.S. trade deficit declined 3.5 percent in August, the government reported, and is expected to shrink further as a severe economic slump depresses demand for oil and other goods.
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Parliament passed a law unlocking Central Bank lending to private banks in a $36 billion bailout, continuing a strategy that has relied on making government oil profits available to banks.