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First-quarter growth flagging

We had originally expected first-quarter GDP growth to be pretty strong, possibly even as high as 4% at an annualised pace. The more incoming data we see, however, the more we suspect that growth will end up between 2.0% and 2.5%. It might even turn out to be lower than that.

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