NY Fed: GDP Nowcast stands at 2% for Q3 of 2017

Eren Sengezer FXStreet

"The New York Fed Staff Nowcast stands at 2.0% for 2017:Q3," the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced on Friday and added, "the effects of news from this week’s data releases were small, leaving the nowcast broadly unchanged."

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Eren Sengezer

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As an economist at heart, Eren Sengezer specializes in the assessment of the short-term and long-term impacts of macroeconomic data, central bank policies and political developments on financial assets.

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