“The New York Fed Staff Nowcast stands at 2.2% for 201:Q3 and 2.8% for 2018:Q4,” the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced on Friday.
Key quotes
- News from this week’s data releases increased the nowcast for 2018:Q3 by 0.2 percentage point and increased the nowcast for 2018:Q4 by 0.8 percentage point.
- Positive surprises from the ISM manufacturing survey drove the increase.