by Doug Short
Financial Sense
The Advance Estimate for Q2 GDP, to one decimal, came in at 1.2 percent, up from 0.8 percent for the Q1 Third Estimate (a downward revision from 1.1 percent). Today’s number was far below most mainstream estimates, with Investing.com posting a consensus of 2.6 percent. However, the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow forecast was revised downward yesterday to 1.8 percent from 2.3 percent the day before. Today’s update includes data revisions from Q2 2013 to the present.
Here is an excerpt from the Bureau of Economic Analysis news release: