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GDP (Q2 1st Estimate)

The 1.5% annualised rise in GDP in the second quarter shows that the economy has lost a fair amount of momentum this year. Nonetheless, the recent run of data probably hasn’t been quite weak enough to prompt the Fed into launching QE3 at next week’s policy meeting. QE3 later in the year is not a done deal either.

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