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GDPNow Trimmed Further Adding To Post-Retail Sales Cut

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  • The Atlanta Fed GDPNow has been revised down to 3.6% from 3.77% in yesterday’s update.
  • It’s a further downward revision from the 4.2% in May 8, with yesterday’s retail sales a large driver of the downgrade.
  • Latest revisions: real gross private domestic investment lower from 7.3% to 5.6%, partly offset by real personal consumption increased from 3.2% to 3.4% and a smaller net trade drag from -0.09pp to -0.06pps.
  • It follows the lower than expected 1.6% annualized real GDP growth in Q1 after a surprisingly strong 2H23 when growth averaged 4.1%.

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