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The ‘GDP Now’ data published by the Federal Reserve of Atlanta is posing some concerns over the health of the U.S. economy and more importantly, the effect of the current trade feud on the economy. In mid-June, Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now was forecasting a U.S. economic growth 4.8 percent in the second quarter of this year. It even prompted the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in suggesting while speaking to CNBC that the growth rate will be over 3 percent on an annualized basis and even close to 4 percent.
However, since then the GDP Now has projected a sharp decline in growth. As of latest reading published last week, GDP Now is projecting 3.8 percent growth in the second quarter; not too impressive and most important, down almost a percent.
The major reasons for the slowdown have been a decline and in consumer spending growth and second-quarter real gross private domestic investment growth. Since mid-June, consumer spending has declined by 0.7 percent and private investment growth has slowed to just 6 percent from well over 7 percent.
It can be said that the uncertainties surrounding trade and tariffs are taking its toll on the economy.
