Atlanta Fed GDP Forecast Plunges Below Consensus, Growth Halved In A Month
The Atlanta Fed forecast a Q1 2018 GDP for the U.S. economy of 5.4%. This was the highest prediction since 2012.
Today, the forecast was lowered to 2.6.%, a 52% decrease in less than a month.
After this morning's Advance Economic Indicators and durable manufacturing reports from the U.S. Census Bureau, the nowcasts of the contributions of real nonresidential equipment investment and real inventory investment to first-quarter real GDP growth declined from 0.45 percentage points and 1.20 percentage points, respectively, to 0.37 percentage points and 0.95 percentage points, respectively. The nowcast of first-quarter real residential investment growth declined from 0.6 percent on February 16 to -4.5 percent on February 26 after housing market releases from the Census Bureau and the National Association of Realtors.
This is in line with the trajectory for the last couple years. We are now seeing a repeat of the 2017 level.
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Hi @zer0hedge Was there secondary market damage causing a slow down.??????????????? It's really a big hit when the government suspended Wells Fargo, and this might have had a chill in this sector for housing loans as other banks limited exposure.
U.S. real GDP annual growth since the recession ended in 2009:
2010: 2.5%
2011: 1.6%
2012: 2.2%
2013: 1.7%
2014: 2.6%
2015: 2.9%
2016: 1.5%
2017: 2.3%
Average: 2.16%
Can someone show me the "Trump Boom" please? Looks like more of the same. The bond market indicated the Fed might be more aggressive, possibly raising rates as many as four times this year. Yields on the 10-year Treasury spiked to as high as 2.95% a four year high.The Fed isn’t raising rates because the economy is strong or they’re trying to get out ahead of inflation. GDP growth for all of 2017 was just 2.3%, only slightly better than the 2.13% cumulative growth since 2009. And worse than the 2.9% growth rate in 2015 and the 2.6% rate in 2014. The real reason the Fed is raising rates is because it’s desperate to get interest rates up to around 3–3.5%. That will allow it to prepare for the next recession. The last recession ended in June 2009. It’s almost nine years since the last recession. This has been one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history. It’s also been a very weak expansion. Growth is running about 2.1% versus 3–3.5% historically. That means we’re going to have a recession sooner than later. I’m not saying we are, but we could be in one already. We usually don’t know we’re in a recession until about six months into it.
Well, there is a problem in the various important sectors that make the U.S. Trump has come with some policies that he may be thought that will work, but it couldn't.
On my view, the U.S.A is no longer performing as it could and now focus on other issues related to foreign countries such as north Correa or Russia. The UnS government has forgotten to bring out strong strategies to raise the populations GDP.
The people are crying, unemployment is hitting high and they all there focusing on how Russia hacked the electoral system.
There are sectors that should be reviewed, especially in the industrial sector. We have seen China, Brazil, Japan, German coming and competing against U.S companies. Some of the U.S companies no longer stand and left behind, then taken over by Chinese.
The implication is that U.S industrial sector will have a reduced demand, affecting the whole country's exonomic sector leading to a reduction of employees cause a rise in unemployment. There is always a way of rising up, but the arrogance of the government will make the country to pretend as being steady yet loosing at a faster rate.
For a consistent rise in the GDP, there are major sector that should rise: industrial and foreign relationship with the world. In addition to that, there must be political stability, peace and security. An increase rate of murder will increase on the level of fobia causing people to be relactant in performing some tasks that would be done. For example, a school teacher may resign due to the rest killing in the school.
I believe that we can raise the GDP if only the government should try to solve the above explained cause and effects to the community of interest.
@jona12
This is not good news for the US economy. USA might be having the worst financial crisis if the economy continues to grow at this rate for the rest of the year. From the news I got from the media today, statistics were showing a fall in the contribution of inventory investment to Q1,
a fall in real personal consumption expenditures, a fall in real nonresidential equipment investment, a fall in the contribution of inventory investment to Q1 growth.
This is a long list to have it coming from one of the most economically powerful countries.
Many countires are advising their citizens not to visit USA as a result of Trump's policies which are pressing non citizens in USA. This has led to a drop in tourism, overseas studying, foreign business travels, visa inquiries. There are a lot of investigations and prosecutions from the IRS with the tax authorities granting themselves the ability to try and seize foreign assets to pay fines for those not having filed US tax statements. This I believe is the reason the economy is going down.
Let's pray for the reforms to be reviewed. This I believe will stabilise the economy.
The US is a ticking time bomb. You thought it was bad with Tony Blair and George Bush going haywire in Iraq? Yeah, it's countries like Greece, France and Italy (and Iran for that matter) that have to deal with that shit.
And now with people on the throne? I mean, he is probably too dumb and weak to actually do any direct harm, but just indirectly a lot of stuff can happen from having him around. His entire point (which happens to be true) is that America is on the decline, and that China is taking over, and we'd better do something about it.Well great, start by spending less money on weapons.
Once you look beneath the surface of this GDP prediction, it’s very easy to see how they rigged it before this report of 2.6%, to use Donald Trump’s expression. Not that it’s some kind of a conspiracy, but look at these numbers, there was a spike in exports. This the biggest gain in exports in recent years. It’s not in manufactured products that we’re exporting, where you’ve got some high-paying jobs. The other factor that really boosted the GDP, was a big boost in inventories. I’m not sure where that came from. Is it that retailers are just stocking up early for the Summer season? I think retailers are overestimating the ability of Americans to go shopping this Summer season. As much as they want to buy stuff they can’t afford, they can’t afford it so much that they can’t even do it.
The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with a delay. Our GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The more I hear about what's been going on especially with the Fed propping up not only the traders/bankers, but the markets as well I start to regret .
At the moment, these sleazeballs can't lose. But they are the problem.
It would be nice if we had an AG (or Senate or House or President) with enough principal and balls of titanium to take on the uber-affluent and their crimes against the state (and not just in the US).
No joy in mudville?
Forecasting is tough and GDP is really a dated stat. It is what is so used so for comparison purposes, maybe it is worth something.
That said, while the MSM wants to tout how things are on fire, I simply do not see it. Companies at the upper end (mega corps) are doing well but small businesses...struggling.
Plus, we know the average person isnt taking home more money...in fact, they are probably falling further behind since medical costs, at leas tin the US, exploded.
This is something that few want to discuss. There is a separation of the ones enjoying this "real growth" and those who are not.
The entire boom period is nothing but easy and cheap money fueled.
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