That was in line with expectations
of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
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.
Not exact matches
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 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.
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.
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.
Eight
of the 14
economists surveyed expected the BOK to lift rates in May, with the others seeing a rise later.
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.
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
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.
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.
«A growing number
of businesses are intending to or have already raised prices,» says Stuart Hoffman, chief
economist at PNC Financial in Pittsburgh, which conducts regular
surveys of small and midsize businesses.
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.
But «it is likely that the uncertainty surrounding the presidential election had a negative impact, especially among lower income consumers, and without that added uncertainty, the confidence measures may not have weakened,» said Richard Curtin, the leading
economist of the University
of Michigan's preliminary consumer confidence
survey.
The U.S. economy probably added 185,000 jobs in March while wage gains accelerated, a
survey of economists showed, reinforcing the Federal Reserve's case for continuing to increase interest rates gradually to keep inflation from overheating while keeping unemployment low.
In our earlier commentary on the Parliamentary Budget Office's (PBO) latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook Update, we stated that economic assumptions were based on a
survey of private sector
economists.
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).
The median forecast
of 71
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for the pace to accelerate to 523,000.
Ten - year U.S. yields will advance more than 0.1 percentage point by the end
of 2015, based on Bloomberg
surveys of economists.
Although PBO
surveys private sector
economists on a regular basis, the economic forecasts used for their updates, since June 2011, are based on PBO's assessment
of future economic developments and not those
of the private sector
economists.
Sales climbed 2.2 percent to a 546,000 annualized pace, exceeding all forecasts in a Bloomberg
survey of economists and the most since February 2008, Commerce Department data showed Tuesday in Washington.
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.
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.
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.
There are actually more Republican
economists than Democratic
economists according to industry
surveys, yet President Trump is ignoring that wing
of the party.
Uber's research team approached Professor Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton
economist who previously was Mr. Obama's chief economic adviser, to conduct a joint
survey of more than 600
of the company's drivers.
A separate
survey of employers, which
economists pay more attention to than the unemployment rate, found that companies added 120,000 jobs last month after adding 100,000 in October.
The divide over the Fed's start date is intense, with a slight majority
of economists leaning toward a September hike, according to CNBC's latest Fed
survey.
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 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 Wall Street Journal reports that over 70 %
of the
economists they've
surveyed project a substantial gain in GDP in the first quarter - a figure that rises to over 95 % forecasting a second quarter gain and over 98 % forecasting a third quarter gain.
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.
The median projection
of 25
economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 5.5 % advance.
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.
The economy is expected to grow only about 1.2 per cent this year, based on a Bloomberg
survey of economists.
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 Bank's
survey of market
economists showed that the median forecast for CPI inflation for the year to June 2005 was unchanged following the release
of the December quarter CPI (Table 17).
The inflation forecasts
of financial market
economists, as
surveyed by the Bank, increased following the release
of the September quarter CPI (Table 12).
«Respondents... generally agree about monetary policy, but there is no clear consensus about most fiscal issues,» said Jay Bryson, global
economist at Wells Fargo Securities and chair
of the NABE's policy
survey committee.
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.