Your Capital Markets Snapshot: Preliminary First Quarter GDP Estimates Below Expectations
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Economic data this week did not move as the Federal Reserve may have wished. The preliminary estimates for first quarter GDP came in below expectations at a 1.6% annual rate, much lower than the fourth quarter rate of 3.4%.