Discrepancy Between GDPNow And Nowcast Is Two Percentage Points Again
Mike (Mish) Shedlock | Apr 02, 2017 02:00AM ET
In the past week, the Nowcast Model for first quarter GDP inched down by 0.1 percentage points.
GdpNow sits at 0.9% and Nowcast at 2.9% so the Discrepancy widens by a tick to two percentage points.
GDPNow Latest Forecast: 0.9 percent — March 31, 2017
The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2017 is 0.9 percent on March 31, down from 1.0 percent on March 24. After this morning’s personal income and outlays release from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the forecast for first-quarter real consumer spending growth fell from 1.4 percent to 0.8 percent. The forecast of the contribution of net exports to first-quarter real GDP growth increased from -0.49 percentage points to -0.16 percentage points after Tuesday’s Advance Economic Indicators Report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
FRBNY Nowcast Latest Forecast: 2.9 percent — March 31, 2017
- The FRBNY Staff Nowcast stands at 2.9% for 2017:Q1 and 2.6% for 2017:Q2.
- Negative news from consumption data reduced the nowcast by about one-tenth of a percentage point for both quarters.
Consumer Spending Disaster
I expected today’s personal income and outlays report would change the forecast by about half a percentage point to the downside. It was a disaster.
Instead, GDPNow and Nowcast both declined a mere 0.1 percentage points. Why?
The following table from GDPNow helps explain.
In between reports, the effect of the advance economic indicators was +0.2 percentage points. Thus the personal income and outlays report did have a sizable impact.
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