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WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As vaccines deploy and social lockdown measures continue to ease, U.S. economic expansion is expected to accelerate this spring, with real GDP growth hitting 8.4 percent in the second quarter and 6.6 percent for the full year before moderating in 2022, according to the March 2021 commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. The ESR Group s latest forecast includes only modest and intertemporal revisions to the topline economic numbers, reflecting recent developments registering mostly offsetting impacts to growth, including stronger-than-expected consumer spending data, weather- and energy-related disruptions across wide swaths of the country, new details regarding the stimulus bill, showing some government expenditures to be later than previously expected, and updated interest rate expectations. Right now, risks to further economic recovery remain largely n
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Economic growth expectations for 2020 and 2021 were upgraded for the second consecutive month due to positive developments associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, the likelihood of new fiscal stimulus, and upbeat consumer spending data, according to the latest commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. On a full-year basis, real GDP in 2020 is now expected to contract only 2.2 percent up from the November forecast s expectation of negative 2.5 percent – before resuming a positive trajectory in 2021 with growth of 4.5 percent, a 1.2 percentage point improvement from the previous forecast. The ESR Group did note a heightened level of near-term uncertainty and potential weakness stemming from new lockdown and social distancing measures amid rapidly rising COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations, and fatality rates. However, the expectation of ongoing accommo