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Although it may have been above some estimates, China's economy grew less than 7% in the first quarter, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.
Fitch Ratings has affirmed the U.S. credit ratings at AAA. Fitch even gave the United States a Stable Outlook.
Most of the IMF's latest World Economic Outlook centers around even slower global growth in gross domestic product for 2016.
Investors should remember that election cycle hyperbole and rhetoric is nothing new, and this could just be more of the same.
The Federal Reserve might be hoping for inflation of 2%, but equity investors have generally been hoping for 2.5% or more growth in gross domestic product in the United States.
Perhaps the real issue is not just what a GDP revision looks like. After all, the data is now almost 90 days old and covers and average of the final quarter of 2015.
U.S. consumers did their bit to boost the country's fourth-quarter gross domestic product to a growth rate of 1.4%.
The durable goods report is one of the most volatile economic readings of them all and subject to huge hits and misses above or below the consensus estimates.
In January and February the recession risks for the United States were picking up. Now it looks as though the biggest risks for the U.S. falling back into recession in 2016 have all but vanished.
Tuesday's economic reports brought a mixed view on the manufacturing segment in the United States.
Is it possible that the negative flow of economic readings in late 2015 and the start of 2016 are not as bad as most economists and investors were led to believe?
This week is going to be an interesting week for key economic reports. We will get a fresh read on January’s Durable Goods orders, which can of course impact Gross Domestic Product readings. Then...
Markit’s Flash U.S. Services PMI was not just a weak reading in February. It was on the bad side of the growth-contraction breakeven point of 50. February’s non-manufacturing reading was down to...
Right now investors and economic watchers alike are trying to decide whether the economic reports generally point toward a slight contraction or the slower growth story remains intact.
The latest OECD Interim Economic Outlook sees only a modest recovery in advanced economies and slower activity in emerging markets.