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.
Eight of the 14
economists surveyed expected the BOK to lift rates in May, with the others seeing a rise later.
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
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.
Economists surveyed by The Wall Street...
Most
economists surveyed by Bloomberg project the Fed will announce its first rate increase in nine years in September.
The median forecast of 71
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for the pace to accelerate to 523,000.
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.
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.
Economists surveyed anticipated that gain, while they also called for a 2,500 decline in employment and the trade deficit to widen to C$ 1.6 billion.
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.
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.
Among financial market
economists surveyed by the Bank, the median inflation expectation has risen slightly in the near term.
The median forecast of 44
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for an advance of 220,000.
That was in line with expectations of
economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
Nine
economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal last week had expected sales to rise by just 0.1 %.
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).
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.
The Economist surveys the scene and sees plug - in cars emerging as the dominant trend.
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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.»
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.
And evidently, the increase in the home sales index is higher than many
economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal thought it would be.
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.
Not exact matches
The 37 respondents to the
survey —
economists, fund managers and strategists — are split over whether the Fed will hike an additional two or three times after June.
«Total compensation is down, part - time workers aren't getting as many hours, and there are fewer hourly employees who are working full time,» said Susan Woodward, the
economist who helped to develop the
survey.
Working in close collaboration with The
Economist Group's Content Solutions Unit, we recently
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Business
surveys, which
economists say may be the best monthly measure of the broader labor market, have shown renewed job shedding in both manufacturing and services.
Most of the loss was concentrated among households with incomes below $ 75,000, noted Richard Curtin, the
Surveys of Consumers chief
economist.
Recently, The
Economist released a
survey of housing costs around the world that suggested Canadian properties are overvalued by 35 % when compared with income.
Fully 100 percent of the 48 respondents to the
survey, including
economists, strategists and fund managers, are sure the Fed won't hike at its meeting this week.
«The Fed should be cautious until the 2 percent price stability target clearly is in sight,» Allen Sinai, chief global
economist of Decision Economics, wrote in response to the
survey.
CNBC's Steve Liesman breaks down results from the December CNBC Fed
Survey and what
economists think about bitcoin.
CNBC's Steve Liesman reveals Fed insights from CNBC's latest
survey of money managers, strategists and
economists.
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.
Despite the exemptions, nearly two - thirds of the 40
survey respondents, including
economists, fund managers and strategists, see the president's trade policies as negative for overall economic growth, with 23 percent saying it's too soon to tell.
On the occasion of yet another downward revision in growth numbers, this time out of the U.S., it's a good time to take a quick
survey of recent writing that just so happens to focus on the penchant among
economists and the U.S. Fed to over-estimate growth predictions.
A Bloomberg
survey of
economists shows Wall Street is anticipating 2 % growth.
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.
Claus Vistesen, chief euro zone
economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in an email that «retail sales growth has increased recently, consistent with better
survey data.
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.
Five out of the world's 10 most expensive cities are in Asia, according to a
survey from the
Economist Intelligence Unit.