What We Learned About the U.S. Economy Last Week
Weekly Economic Update: A brief, non-technical review of the previous week's U.S. economic data releases by Kevin A. Roth, PhD
GDP growth was not as poor as previously thought during Q4 2015 (although still quite weak) while there was a spark in consumer spending during January.
A series of reports released last week finds November’s drop in housing was an aberration but also that overall business activity remained feeble in December.
Another consumer sentiment survey rebounding in December was the highlight in an otherwise quiet holiday week of economic data news. Here are the 5 things we learned from U.S. economic data released during the week ending January 1. Another survey finds improving consumer confidence as 2015 wrapped up. Mimicking what we saw last week with... Continue Reading →
