At face value, the weakness of business spending revealed in today’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) survey points to a downward revision to Q1 GDP, although not necessarily a very large one (perhaps from +1.2% to +0.8% q/q). More importantly, there is every reason to expect non-residential investment to have accelerated again in Q2.
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