Last week's huge US trade deficit caused a big downgrade in Q1 growth expectations for the US but Goldman Sachs took a deeper look at the data and noted that the picture isn't so bad.
Most analysts assumed that it was stockpiling of goods ahead of the tariffs that drop the huge jump in US imports that weighed on trade. Instead, it was gold that did much of the work.
Goldman lowered its Q1 GDP estimate to +1.6%, far above the -2.8% in the Atlanta Fed tracker. They see growth this year at 2.2%, down from 2.4% though that's surely highly subject to what comes out of Congress and the White House in the months ahead.
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