NY Fed: Nowcast GDP growth expectation eases to 2.7% for Q2

"The New York Fed Staff Nowcast stands at 2.7% for 2018:Q2 and 2.4% for 2018:Q3," the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported on Friday.

Key quotes from the official publication

• News from this week's data releases decreased the nowcast for 2018:Q2 by 0.1 percentage point and decreased the nowcast for 2018:Q3 by 0.2 percentage point.
• The largest negative surprises came from housing data and were only partially offset by positive surprises from industrial production and capacity utilization data.