For the first time, the
individual economists surveyed were largely in agreement on the trajectory of home prices nationally, signaling that a true bottom may be imminent.
Housing starts for March came in at 1.319 million, well above the annual pace of 1.255 million forecast by
economists surveyed by MarketWatch.
U.S. retail sales excluding autos and gasoline grew 0.2 percent in October, half the month - earlier gain, according to the median forecast
of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Still,
economists surveyed didn't change their outlook that U.S. gross domestic product will grow at more than 2 percent over the next 12 months.
Expectations are muted: the recent consensus
among economists surveyed by Bloomberg was that our GDP should expand by a meager 1.8 % in 2013, a pace commonly known as «stall speed.»
Economists surveyed last week predict inflation will average 2.3 per cent in the second quarter and 2.4 per cent in the third — the highest levels since 2011.
Dec 14, 2015: In a November poll of academic and
business economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal, 92 % said they expected the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in December, the first such hike in more than nine years.
The budget notes «
economists surveyed offered a wide range of views regarding future economic growth» and that «changes in economic growth assumptions can have large impacts on the budgetary balance and debt - to - GDP profile over an extended projection horizon».
Most
economists we surveyed see a stronger outlook for the housing market over the next year or two, but a more pessimistic outlook on the longer horizon.»
And evidently, the increase in the home sales index is higher than
many economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal thought it would be.
It has the most comprehensive econometric model to forecast economic developments, over both the short and long term, among any of the private
sector economists surveyed.
Over the past three months, the financial
market economists surveyed by the Bank have made no substantial revisions to their near - term forecasts for inflation, with the median CPI inflation forecast for the year to June 2004 remaining unchanged at 2.3 per cent (Table 17).
Most economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect an increase to be announced Thursday, with the median forecast being a 50bn rise to 225bn.
Sales of new houses increased to an annual pace of 411,000, exceeding the highest forecast of
economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
About half
the economists surveyed by Bloomberg News now say the Bank of Canada will drop its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 % today.
All 14
economists surveyed by Reuters predicted the central bank would keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged while assessing the effects of its November rate rise and global
Winning odds: 65 % according to
economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
The median forecast of 71
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for the pace to accelerate to 523,000.
U.S. employers probably added 184,000 jobs in October, versus 142,000 in September,
economists surveyed by Bloomberg predict.
The flat reading was below the median forecast of 82
economists surveyed by Bloomberg, which called for a 0.2 percent advance.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch are forecasting a strong nonfarm payrolls number on Friday, and most investors expect the Fed will raise rates by another quarter - percent next week.
The median projection of 25
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 5.5 % advance.
The latter is not a «consensus» forecast but simply an average of
those economists surveyed.
The median forecast of 44
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for an advance of 220,000.
Nine
economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal last week had expected sales to rise by just 0.1 %.
Core inflation, which attempts to strip out extraordinary events such as extreme weather or new taxes, rose by an average of 0.9 % in the quarter from the preceding one, compared with the 0.6 % expected by 15
economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.
President Obama's $ 447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to
economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had a median forecast that durable - goods orders would rise by 1.5 % in December.
Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast a 4.2 per cent growth in output compared with an upwardly revised 4.5 per cent year - on - year increase in August.
The Economist surveys the scene and sees plug - in cars emerging as the dominant trend.
The very next sentence in the initial paragraph reads: «The median estimate of 92
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for an advance of 115,000.»
The decline was much less than the $ 9 billion forecast by
economists surveyed by MarketWatch.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected a July reading of 74.3.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected a December result of 72.9.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg earlier this month saw the Fed lifting rates by a quarter percentage point at their Dec. 12 - 13 meeting.
Economists forecast purchases would rise to a 325,000 annual rate in March, according to the median estimate of 77
economists surveyed.
That was well below the 0.9 % gain expected by
economists surveyed by MarketWatch.