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Jai Weil
The U.S. economy grew at a blistering pace over three months ending in September, more than doubling growth in the previous quarter and rebuking worries about a possible recession. The robust performance, however, complicates the fight to dial back inflation.
A blockbuster jobs report earlier this month exceeded economist expectations by nearly twofold. Consumer spending, which accounts for nearly three-quarters of U.S. economic activity, surged in September, according to data released last week.
In keeping with the spending blitz, personal savings diminished during the third quarter, the BEA said. The share of disposable income put away as savings stood at 3.8% in the three-month period ending in September, down from 5.2% in the previous quarter.
The U.S. economy grew even faster than expected in the third quarter, buoyed by a strong consumer in spite of higher interest rates, ongoing inflation pressures, and a variety of other domestic and global headwinds.
Gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced in the U.S., rose at a seasonally adjusted 4.9% annualized pace in the July-through-September period, up from an unrevised 2.1% pace in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a 4.7% acceleration in real GDP, which also is adjusted for inflation.
Consumer spending, as measured by personal consumption expenditures, increased 4% for the quarter after rising just 0.8% in Q2, and was responsible for 2.7 percentage points of the total GDP increase. Inventories contributed 1.3 percentage points. Gross private domestic investment surged 8.4% and government spending and investment jumped 4.6%.
"This report confirmed what we already knew: The consumer went on a shopping spree in the third quarter," said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist for U.S. SPDR Business at State Street Global Advisors. "I don't think anything in this report changes the outlook for monetary policy. That's why I don't think you're seeing an overreaction from markets."
"Investors should not be surprised that the consumer was spending in the final months of the summer," said Jeffrey Roach, chief economist at LPL Financial. "The real question is if the trend can continue in the coming quarters, and we think not."
At a time when many economists had thought the U.S. would be in the midst of at least a shallow recession, growth has kept pace due to consumer spending that has exceeded all expectations. The consumer was responsible for about 68% of GDP in Q3.
"Going forward, the consumer's not going to spend at the same rate, the government is not going to spend at the same rate, and businesses seem to be slowing down their spending as well," Arone said. "This suggests this might be the peak GDP figure, at least in the next few quarters."
Across these four outcome areas, the PACE Certificate is composed of 90 credits. To earn these 90 credits and graduate with a PACE Certificate, students have the opportunity to complete a total of 30 three-credit classes. A student taking a full-time courseload (15 credits per quarter) can earn the PACE Certificate in approximately two years or six academic quarters.
What I am looking to understand and show here is, at any point in the month, are my team members above pace, behind pace, or exactly on pace. I would like the "pace cells" to read "above", "behind" or "on pace", depending on the current date in each month and my teams actual, current achievement.
For example, if we were on the 25th of January 2022 and they had 10 sales, it would read "above pace" in A21. However, if they only have 1 sale, it would read "behind pace". I hope that makes some level of sense!
PACE is a payment plan that allows you to spread the costs of your registration fees over the quarter in three monthly installments. You must apply for a new PACE Plan Agreement each quarter and activate it by paying your entire first installment. A PACE activation payment must be received at the Central Cashier no later than the registration fee deadline.
All installments must be paid by their due date to avoid late charges and possible disqualification from future PACE participation. Past due installments will prevent payment of registration fees for subsequent quarters, will place a hold on your student records, and may result in collection actions that include write-off and referral to a collection agency and possible litigation.
You are agreeing to pay the PACE Plan amount, which is cost of your quarterly registration fees less any applicable credits (waivers, financial aid, and/or graduate support). The amounts of credits may fluctuate without warning (due to changes in fees and/or eligibility). You must verify the current PACE Plan amount in order to activate your Agreement.
If you are officially withdrawn, cancelled, or academically disqualified after activating your PACE Plan Agreement for that quarter, any available credit must be applied to outstanding PACE balances before the remainder may be refunded to you. If you withdraw too late to be eligible for any credit, or if the credit is less than your outstanding PACE balances, you are responsible for paying the remaining amounts due. In any case, the PACE participation fee is non-refundable.
Using PACE does not obligate you to use the plan again for a subsequent quarter. You apply only for the PACE plan for the current quarter when you decide to participate. As long as you are enrolled in a regular, degree-granting program at UCI, and you are in good financial standing (no past-due charges, returned checks, or other debts, including PACE balances), PACE is open to you.
In Norway, Tesla is also on pace for a record month of March in Norway with already 7,000 deliveries; it will likely end the month with around 10,000 vehicles delivered in the quarter, which is massively impressive for a small country.
IMO, Tesla will exceed the markets expectations. Good job Team Tesla. BUT ... analysts will focus not on deliveries but on Tesla's decline in gross profits. The 4th Estate and analysts seem to prefer to hammer TSLA and generally a favorable event or quarterly announcement is met the next morning with a lower stock price. I may be a Teslas fanboy but the company is doing so many things so well. Sure there have been some delays (CT, Semi) and disappointments (FSD, robotaxi) but they are moving the puck in the right direction. Musk said in November 2019 that CT production was contingent on Giga Austin and 4680 battery progress. FYI, Giga Austin broke ground in July 2020. And still the critics ...
The Tibet Autonomous Region and island province Hainan logged year-on-year growth of 9.8% and 9.5%, respectively, in the first three quarters of 2023, marking the fastest economic expansion among all provincial-level regions, official statistics showed.
One of the more welcome developments in the intermeeting period was the firming in business capital spending. After modestly contracting in the third quarter, real business capital outlays increased at an 8.4% pace in the fourth quarter, allaying concerns that companies were retrenching in the face of fiscal uncertainties. Spending on equipment and software rebounded to post a 12.3% rate of increase, led by a rebound in high-tech spending which had contracted the prior two quarters. Levels of capital spending are still somewhat depressed relative to pre-recession norms, and the cost of capital for businesses remains very low, both of which should support continued growth in capital expenditures.
Whereas business capital spending faltered in the third quarter of last year, business employment has increased in a steadier manner. Private employment increased 166,000 last month, and for 2012 as a whole, 2.2 million private jobs were created, the second consecutive year with greater than 2 million jobs created by the business sector. In spite of the steady increase in labor usage, business profit margins have remained wide, in part because labor costs remain soft. The Employment Cost Index (ECI) expanded only 1.9% over the last four quarters. Employer costs for health benefits increased only 2.8% over that period, well below the 6.2% average annual increase seen over the past decade.
The housing rebound gained further momentum since the last meeting; real residential investment increased at a 15.3% rate in the fourth quarter, adding about 0.4%-point to overall economic growth. Recent data on housing permits point to continued robust homebuilding activity in the current quarter. House price indicators have also been firm as of late, with the Case-Shiller national index increasing 5.5% in the twelve months ending in November.
Exports declined in the fourth quarter for the first time in the current expansion, contracting at a 5.7% pace. On net, foreign trade subtracted 0.3%-point from overall GDP growth last quarter. Recent data from a few large US trading partners, particularly China, Japan and the Eurozone, suggest that the external environment could soon become somewhat more supportive for US exporters.
Inflation has been soft in recent months, held down by declines in energy prices. On a year-ago basis the price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE) has increased only 1.3%. The ex-food and energy core PCE index has also been quite soft, rising only 1.4% over the past year. The deceleration in this category was even more pronounced in the fourth quarter, when core PCE prices increased at only a 0.9% annual rate. Inflation is likely to remain muted for the foreseeable future, as soft wage gains limit business labor costs.
Credit quality for U.S. Public Finance (USPF) rose overall in the third quarter of 2023, but to a lesser degree than the second quarter. USPF issuers rated by S&P Global had 180 upgrades (166 non-housing and 14 housing), down noticeably from 465 upgrades in the second quarter of 2023 (404 non-housing and 61 housing). Downgrades also fell in the third-quarter, to 57 (56 non-housing and one housing), from 79 in the second quarter of 2023 (70 non-housing and nine housing). There was one default in the third quarter, down from three in the second quarter.
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