Daily Archives: August 12, 2015

BMO on oil slide impacts for Canada

Of course, BMO being a corporate underwriting/investment sales franchise, was not forecasting a drop in crude before it happened, and they are still calling for a rebound, but…the comments here are starting to acknowledge the gravity of a sustained oil … Continue reading

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Economic consensus still far, far above realistic marks

The more historically realistic US GDPNow model forecast for Q3 2015 real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) was 1.0 percent on August 6 (green dot below) compared with the still much higher 2.6 to 3.6% range of consensus forecasts … Continue reading

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