Tag Archives: Gross Domestic Product

Residential fixed investment was at its highest level in eight years. How did that figure into the GDP?

Was the slowdown in GDP growth an early indicator of the negative state of the economy and slowly growing housing markets?

While it may be too early to declare a trend, what will it mean if these two central measures of the economy continue on the paths they’ve taken the last two years?

In the last few months of 2015, the economy grew weary, boosting worries that the American economy is losing its spark, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis “advance” estimate for the fourth quarter of 2015.

Soft economic growth in Q4 to this point has done nothing to change Fannie Mae’s forecast for economic growth forecast for 2016, as current economic conditions suggest that that a long-anticipated increase in the federal funds target rate will be announced Wednesday afternoon

National gross-domestic product growth increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the third quarter "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, down drastically from the last quarter when the GDP rose to a healthy 3.9 percent.

The gross domestic product growth in the Group of Twenty economies has been revised downward for next year, according to a report from Moody's Investors Services released Friday.

Real GDP growth in Q2 is way up from a paltry 0.6 percent annual growth rate in Q1 and at 3.7 percent is now way ahead of forecasts for the remainder of 2015. But when all economic factors are considered, is the news all good?

In its second of three estimates of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the first quarter released Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued a downward revision of what analysts had already deemed "paltry" growth of 0.2 percent in the advance estimate for Q1 reported at the end of April. According to the BEA's second estimate for Q1, which is based on more complete source data than were available for the advance estimate, the GDP contracted at an annual rate of minus 0.7 percent.

Fannie Mae chief economist and SVP Doug Duncan pointed out that the actuals as far as housing–existing home sales, new home sales, and prices–were either at or very close to their predicted levels during Q1, and mortgage purchase applications have been way up for the last couple of months.