Finally, Some Good Events to Trade
Jackson Hole, ten PMI releases, and the BRICS summit. This week will be full of market movements, and we will be there to trade them. Get ready, and let’s roll!
US GDP surge is updated downwards to 2.2%
Economic surge in the United States speeded down a bit than previously anticipated in the first quarter. It’s because of downward update of investment in inventories as well as consumer spending. However, a reduction in the revenue tax will probably spur activity this year.
Year-on-year GDP tacked on by 2.2%. That’s what the Ministry of Commerce told in its second GDP evaluation for the first quarter on Wednesday, instead of the previously posted reading of 2.3%. In the fourth quarter, the American economy managed to ascend by 2.9%.
In the beginning of the second quarter, there’re signs of GDP surge, with firm consumer spending, business investment in equipment as well as industrial output in April. However, the housing market seems to have rebounded.
Market experts expect that the $1.5 trillion income tax reform that came into force in January, is going to back economic surge in 2018 and bring annual GDP surge closer to the 3% objective of the American government.
Market experts had expected that GDP surge in the first quarter would remain intact at about 2.3%. The government also reported that after-tax revenue headed north 5.9% in the first quarter having ascended up to 1.7% during the fourth quarter.
It appeared to be the fastest rate of revenue surge since the first quarter of 2016 and it could be explained by a reduction in the corporate tax rate to about 21% from 35%. As the Ministry of Commerce informed, taxes on corporate income in the first quarter went down by $117.4 billion.
The reform of the tax code also underpinned the dividends obtained from the rest of the world. Wages and compensation in the first quarter ascended by $119.5 billion, updated upwards to a soar of $3.1 billion compared with previous forecast.
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