Thursday, November 29, 2007

Do Your own Economic Forecast ...

Revisions to GDP data for third quarter suggest that you can bump up the estimate for net export growth substantially, up another $10-20 billion or so.

A draw in inventories (and declines in durables, nondurables) - a cut in production, is to be expected in a slowdown, so this confirms that with these data. I don't really have a big loss in jobs associated with that, however (apart from what is expected in construction industry) humm....

Investment, including residential investment, mostly at rates expected.


Table. NIPA 1.1.1, 1.1.2
Revisions: Revisions to percentage contribution to growth; growth, and revision to growth:

Percent change at annual rate:Chng
%Contrb
%GrwthChng
%Grwth
Gross domestic product14.91
Personal consumption expenditures-0.232.7-0.3
Durable goods-0.044-0.4
Nondurable goods-0.171.9-0.8
Services-0.022.8-0.1
Gross private domestic investment0.795.95.1
Fixed investment0.17-0.41.1
Nonresidential0.159.41.5
Structures0.0614.32
Equipment and software0.097.21.3
Residential0.02-19.70.4
Change in private inventories0.62---
Net exports of goods and services0.4414.63.6
Exports0.2918.92.7
Goods0.2125.82.8
Services0.0842.4
Imports0.164.3-0.9
Goods0.184.9-1.3
Services-0.010.90.5
Government consumption expenditures and gross investment0.023.90.2
Federal0.0170.2
National defense0.0210.10.4
Nondefense00.90
State and local0.012.10.1

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