ATLANTA: While President Donald Trump is looking for some “very good numbers” on US growth shortly, the economic data of late have fallen short of economists’ forecasts.
The Bloomberg US Economic Surprise Index, which measures whether incoming economic data beat or miss expectations of surveyed economists, fell below zero on Thursday for the first time this year to the lowest point since just after last November’s election. Economists, though, still project a pickup in second-quarter growth.
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