{"id":1156,"date":"2013-04-18T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markkirkwood.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2013-04-18T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:07:17","slug":"economic-forecasts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Economic forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

APRIL | 2013 \u2014 Kiplinger’s Latest Economic Outlooks<\/strong><\/p>\n

GDP<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a01.75% growth in ’13, a bit softer than last year<\/p>\n

Unemployment<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Heading to about 7.5% by the end of ’13<\/p>\n

Interest rates<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Little or no increase in short-term rates in ’13<\/p>\n

Inflation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Slightly higher this year, 2.3%<\/p>\n

Business spending<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 About a 4% gain in ’13, half of ’12’s pace<\/p>\n

Energy<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Oil trading at $95-$100\/barrel through Memorial Day<\/p>\n

Housing sales<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Existing homes up 7.5% in ’13, new ones more than 35%<\/p>\n

Retail sales<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 About 4% growth in ’13; consumer spending slowdown<\/p>\n

Trade deficit<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Widening by 2% in ’13, after a slight dip in ’12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APRIL | 2013 \u2014 Kiplinger’s Latest Economic Outlooks GDP\u00a0\u2014\u00a01.75% growth in ’13, a bit softer than last year Unemployment\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Heading to about 7.5% by the end of ’13 Interest rates\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Little or no increase in short-term rates in ’13 Inflation\u00a0\u2014 Slightly higher this year, 2.3% Business spending\u00a0\u2014 About a 4% gain in ’13, half of ’12’s pace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}