{"id":52308,"date":"2015-06-19T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T08:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52308"},"modified":"2025-01-08T06:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T11:53:38","slug":"guage-of-us-economy-posts-solid-0-7-percent-may-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/19\/guage-of-us-economy-posts-solid-0-7-percent-may-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauge of US economy posts solid 0.7% may advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18729\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_145944785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18729\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_145944785-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_145944785-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_145944785-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_145944785.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; An index designed to predict the future health of the economy posted a second straight strong increase in May, indicating the economy should gain strength in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">The Conference Board said Thursday that its index of leading indicators rose 0.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy fluoxetine online <a href=\"https:\/\/bereniceelectrolysis.com\/formvalidation\/dist\/html\/fluoxetine.html\">https:\/\/bereniceelectrolysis.com\/formvalidation\/dist\/html\/fluoxetine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>7 percent in May, matching the gain in April. Both months represented the strongest increase since a 1 percent rise last July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">Ataman Ozyildirim, director of business cycle research for the Conference Board, said the recent strength was &#8220;confirming the outlook for more economic expansion in the second half of the year after what looks to be a much weaker first half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">The economy actually shrank in the first three months with the gross domestic product contracting at an annual rate of 0.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">But economists say growth rebounded to around 2 percent in the current April-June quarter and will strengthen even further to around 3 percent in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">The index of leading indicators is composed of 10 forward-pointing indicators.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy buspar online <a href=\"https:\/\/bereniceelectrolysis.com\/formvalidation\/dist\/html\/buspar.html\">https:\/\/bereniceelectrolysis.com\/formvalidation\/dist\/html\/buspar.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Nine of the 10 showed strength in May led by a big surge in applications for building permits.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vilitra online <a href=\"https:\/\/bereniceelectrolysis.com\/formvalidation\/dist\/html\/vilitra.html\">https:\/\/bereniceelectrolysis.com\/formvalidation\/dist\/html\/vilitra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> One indicator, average weekly hours worked in manufacturing, was unchanged in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; An index designed to predict the future health of the economy posted a second straight strong increase &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1145,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-headline","category-news-w","mauthors-martin-crutsinger","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280713,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308\/revisions\/280713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}