“The New York Fed Staff Nowcast stands at 1.0% for 2019:Q2 and 1.3% for 2019:Q3,” the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported on Friday.
Key quotes
- News from this week’s data releases decreased the nowcast for 2019:Q2 by 0.5 percentage point and decreased the nowcast for 2019:Q3 by 0.7 percentage point.
- Negative surprises from the ISM manufacturing survey, employment data, and international trade data drove most of the decrease.