{"id":7464,"date":"2010-01-29T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:01:41","slug":"gdp-in-charts-too-hot-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/gdp-in-charts-too-hot-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP In Charts &#8211; Too Hot to Handle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GDP was surprisingly hot on the announcement today, coming in at5.7% vs the expected 4.7%. We heard some whispers that Goldman (GS) had been predicting a high number last week and by golly they were right!<\/p>\n<p>Immediately the dollar gained ground and the<!--more--> markets shot up&#8230;. for a moment. There is still a great deal of concern surrounding Greece and Iceland along with a rate hike that will be on the heels of this report.<\/p>\n<p>4th Quarter GDP was announced:<\/p>\n<p>* Q4 GDP Q\/Q- advance +5.7% vs +4.7% consensus, Q3 +2.2%<br \/>\n* Q4 Personal Consumption- advance +2.0% vs +1.8% consensus, Q3 +2.8%<br \/>\n* Q4 Core PCE Q\/Q- advance +1.4% vs +1.3% consensus, Q3 +1.2%<br \/>\n* Q4 GDP Price Index- advance +0.6% vs +1.3% consensus, Q3 +0.4%<br \/>\n* Q4 Employment Cost Index +0.5% vs +0.4% consensus, Q3 +0.4%<br \/>\n* Inventories accounted for +3.4% of US GDP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/gdp-in-charts-too-hot-to-handle\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7465 aligncenter\" title=\"GDP 20100129\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GDP-20100129-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/gdp-in-charts-too-hot-to-handle\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7466\" title=\"GDP Parts 20100129\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GDP-Parts-20100129-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disclosure: <a title=\"Horowitz &amp; Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horowitzandcompany.com\">Horowitz &amp; Company<\/a> clients may hold positions of securities mentioned as of the date published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GDP was surprisingly hot on the announcement today, coming in at5.7% vs the expected 4.7%. We heard some whispers that Goldman (GS) had been predicting a high number last week and by golly they were right! Immediately the dollar gained ground and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481,483],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}