6 Oct 2017
NY Fed's GDP Nowcast stands at 1.5% for Q3 of 2017
"The New York Fed Staff Nowcast stands at 1.5% for 2017:Q3 and 2.5% for 2017:Q4," the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Friday.
Key quotes:
- News from this week’s data releases left the nowcast for Q3 broadly unchanged and increased the nowcast for Q4 by 0.5 percentage point.
- Positive surprises from the ISM surveys outweighed negative surprises from employment data.