And evidently, the increase in the home sales index is higher than many
economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal thought it would be.
That was well below the 0.9 % gain expected by
economists surveyed by MarketWatch.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg earlier this month saw the Fed lifting rates by a quarter percentage point at their Dec. 12 - 13 meeting.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected a December result of 72.9.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected a July reading of 74.3.
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.
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).
Nine
economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal last week had expected sales to rise by just 0.1 %.
That was in line with expectations of
economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
The median forecast of 44
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for an advance of 220,000.
Among financial market
economists surveyed by the Bank, the median inflation expectation has risen slightly in the near term.
The median projection of 25
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 5.5 % 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.
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.
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 median forecast of 71
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for the pace to accelerate to 523,000.
Most
economists surveyed by Bloomberg project the Fed will announce its first rate increase in nine years in September.
Economists surveyed by The Wall Street...
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.»
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
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.
Not exact matches
Recently, The
Economist released a
survey of housing costs around the world that suggested Canadian properties are overvalued
by 35 % when compared with income.
The results, compiled
by the
Economist Intelligence Unit, are based on both subjective life - satisfaction
surveys and objective measures of quality of life.
The work was done
by economists Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader, and it analyzes time use day from the American Time Use
Survey, which asks Americans to give detailed accounts of how they spend their days.
Economists expect the University of Michigan's monthly
survey to show a preliminary increase in U.S. consumer sentiment for the month of August, while industrial production is expected to have increased
by 0.3 % in July.
The poll showed the median probability of a rate rise provided
by economists was about one - in - four and only 6 % of those
surveyed expected the Fed to act, with the majority expecting the Fed to wait until December.
A recent
survey of 45
economists by Bloomberg revealed a consensus that its economy will grow about 7.5 % to 8 % in 2012 through 2014.
Indeed, Randell Moore, who
survey's
economists as the editor of the Blue Economic Indicators, says the current consensus is for the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond to rise to 3.25 %
by the end of 2015.
Among the 480 small and medium enterprises from 12 countries, 40 percent earned zero revenue from international operations when
surveyed by the
Economist Intelligence Unit in February.
Known as Canada's Global Business School ™, the Schulich is ranked among the world's leading business schools
by a number of global
surveys (# 1 in the world
by the Aspen Institute; # 1 in Canada
by Forbes, The
Economist and Expansión).
Ten - year U.S. yields will advance more than 0.1 percentage point
by the end of 2015, based on Bloomberg
surveys of
economists.
Nonfarm payrolls probably increased
by 192,000 jobs last month, according to a Reuters
survey of
economists, after rising only 103,000 in March.
Questionnaires are completed in the second half of each month, and
survey results are then processed
by IHS Markit
economists.
In evaluating the opinions that you hear to the contrary, keep in mind that the consensus of
economists, as measured
by the Blue Chip Economic
Survey and others, has never forecast an oncoming recession, and usually remained rosy even several months after the actual recession was eventually determined to have started.
Economists are primarily in the wait - a-month camp — only five of 26
surveyed by Bloomberg News expect the central bank to hike its 0.75 - per - cent benchmark rate this week.
The unemployment rate was last below 8 % in January 2009, at 7.7 %, and
economists don't expect it to drop below 8 % again till 2013, according to the latest
survey of 43 forecasters conducted
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
They now reckon Asia's third - largest economy will expand
by a paltry 4.0 percent in the quarter, compared with a median estimate of 6.5 percent from a Bloomberg
survey of 12
economists published in late - November.
WASHINGTON — Most business
economists believe the Federal Reserve's controversial bond - buying stimulus program has helped boost the recovery, but differ on the effects of the healthcare reform law and other policies
by President Obama and Congress, according to
survey results released Monday.
The inflation forecasts of financial market
economists, as
surveyed by the Bank, increased following the release of the September quarter CPI (Table 12).
A
survey of nearly 2,000
economists, security analysts and corporate executives conducted in March and April found that in 30 out of 41 countries — including the U.S. — these experts are calling for stocks to outperform bonds
by a wider margin than they did when last
surveyed in 2015.
The median inflation forecast of private - sector
economists for the year to June 2001, as
surveyed by the Bank following the release of the June quarter CPI, has increased to 5.5 per cent from 5.3 per cent in the March
survey.
In a
survey conducted
by Bloomberg earlier this month, 38 of 47
economists said that the Federal Reserve's recent policy shift would cause 30 - year mortgage rates to rise next year.
The
survey by the NABE, a professional association for business
economists, academics and others who use economics in the workplace, was released Monday.
U.S. retail sales for the three weeks preceding Christmas, closely watched
by economists as an indicator of monthly same - store sales strength, had their strongest showing (53.4) since 2014 (49.6), according to the Evercore ISI Sales
Survey.
A group of well - known
economists for the
Survey of Professional Forecasters assigned just a 3 % chance of the economy shrinking
by any margin in 2008.
Results from the Bank's latest quarterly
survey of financial market
economists show that the median inflation forecast is 2.1 per cent over the year to June 2004, before picking up to 2.4 per cent over the year to June 2005; forecasts for both periods are lower than they were in November 2003
by 0.1 percentage points (Table 16).
Authored
by economists Raymond Fisman, Pamela Jakiela, and Shachar Kariv, along with law professor Daniel Markovits, the research is based on
surveys of three cohorts of Yale Law students, one in 2007, another in 2010, and a final one in 2013.
Last month, a
survey of 200 Chinese institutional investors
by the
Economist Intelligence Unit, commissioned
by US financial services giant State Street, found that 62 per cent of respondents think the renminbi will surpass the US dollar as the top international reserve currency.
YouGov's latest
survey for the Sunday Times was conducted following the news that Britain's economy contracted
by 0.7 % in the second quarter of this year — a worse figure than most
economists had predicted.
Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement
Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental
economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study
by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.