It’s Official: Fed Sees 0.0% GDP Growth In The First Quarter

Recovery!


It’s Official: Fed Sees 0.0% GDP Growth In The First Quarter (ZeroHedge, April 1, 2015):

The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2015 has been downgraded once again… to 0.0 percent on April 1, down from 2.3 percent on Feb 13th.

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Following this morning’s construction spending release from the U.S. Census Bureau, the nowcast for real residential investment growth increased from -1.1 percent to 1.8 percent. This was more than offset by declines in the nowcasts for real nonresidential structures investment growth (-19.3 percent to -22.5 percent) and real state and local government spending growth (0.3 percent to -0.8 percent).

Not Pretty!

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Source: GDPNow

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