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RSM recovery watch: Upgraded growth forecast and more evidence of a turn in the business cycle

Apr. 9, 2021 by Joseph Brusuelas

There are signs that the business cycle has made a turn, bottoming out of a deep recession and moving into its next phase of sustained economic growth. As such, we have recently upgraded our forecast for 2021 real GDP growth to 7.5% (7.2% previously) on a year-over-year basis, a decline in the unemployment rate to 4.1% (4.5% previously) and an increase in ... READ MORE >

March jobs report blows past expectations with best still to come

Apr. 2, 2021 by Joseph Brusuelas

An American economy about to regain its swagger after a year of pandemic-induced crisis was on full display in the March jobs report. The labor market added 916,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate declined to 6% from 6.2%. After adding in the 156,000-job upward revision to the January and February reports, the net change was an increase of 1.072 million ... READ MORE >

Understanding what is involved in a $2 trillion infrastructure project

Mar. 30, 2021 by Joseph Brusuelas

The latest report card on the nation’s infrastructure from the American Society of Civil Engineers confirms what just about everyone already knows: It’s old, it’s broken and it doesn’t work anymore. To address this gap, the Biden administration has proposed spending roughly $2 trillion over the next decade. Among the initiatives are $621 billion for ... READ MORE >

Initial jobless claims: Still elevated as another benefits cliff looms

Jan. 7, 2021 by Joseph Brusuelas

First-time jobless claims held steady at 787,000 for the week ending Jan. 2, while the number of those claiming unemployment benefits stands at 19.1 million, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time claims for federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance rest at 161,400. Continuing claims fell to 5.07 million. Seasonal factors at the turn of the ... READ MORE >

Holiday sales to limp forward as pandemic weighs on economy

Oct. 19, 2020 by Joseph Brusuelas

Holiday spending is likely to advance at a tepid 0.5% pace as households still reeling from the pandemic pull back on traditional and experiential holiday outlays. This forecast is optimistic compared to the 4.6% decline in 2008, the last holiday season that took place during a recession. And it is analogous to the 2009 spending season, when purchases ... READ MORE >

June Consumer Price Index: Inflation not a risk to near-term economic outlook

Jul. 14, 2020 by Joseph Brusuelas

Rising energy and gasoline prices accounted for roughly half of the 0.6% increase month over month inside the June Consumer Price Index report and should prove transient due to easing demand on the back of an intensifying pandemic. That increase, for the most part, is the recovery in oil and gasoline prices following the pandemic-induced collapse in ... READ MORE >

Hiring expected to slow in September jobs report

Oct. 3, 2019 by Joseph Brusuelas

The labor market is expected to continue to lose steam in September, with the total change in employment likely increasing by 115,000 jobs on the month, and the unemployment rate likely rising to 3.8%. Given the slowdown in domestic manufacturing activity and goods production, we note there is downside risk to our top line forecast when the report is ... READ MORE >

US manufacturing activity hits 10-year low point

Oct. 2, 2019 by Jason Alexander

Contraction in U.S. manufacturing is continuing, with activity reaching a ten-year low in September, as economic and political uncertainty weigh on the industrial sector. According to the latest Institute for Supply Management report, manufacturing reached its lowest point since June 2009 after a second straight month of slowing. The index registered ... READ MORE >

Economic growth is running out of steam, RSM data shows

Sep. 26, 2019 by Joseph Brusuelas

The U.S. economy likely grew at a 2.0% yearly rate in July and August, a drop from the 2.3% yearly rate of U.S. real GDP growth in the first quarter, according to the RSM US Real GDP Index (see chart below). (The index is based on a subset of indicators used by the National Bureau of Economic Research.) So far the domestic economy has absorbed two ... READ MORE >

The RSM Brexit Stress Index moves up amid global financial backlash and domestic slowdown

Aug. 9, 2019 by Joseph Brusuelas

The RSM Brexit Stress Index moved up again this week, showing significantly higher levels of stress after the United States escalated its trade war with China and the Chinese renminbi was devalued against the U.S. dollar, causing upheaval in the global markets. The composite index, which measures economic stress surrounding Britain’s impending departure ... READ MORE >

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