U.S. Economic Update: January 2016

We expect another year of moderate growth in 2016, with further labour market improvement and inflation starting to move back towards the Fed’s target.

By Tony Kelly

US Economic Monthly Update

We expect another year of moderate growth in 2016, with further labour market improvement and inflation starting to move back towards the Fed’s target.
Recent partial data have been on the soft side pointing to only slow GDP growth in the December quarter 2015.
Fed rate hikes expected to be only gradual this year; we expect the next hike will be in March.

For further details please see the attached document.

US Economic Update – January 2016 (PDF, 108KB)

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