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Goldman Sachs now says US GDP will shrink 24% next quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic

From markets.businessinsider.com

After already saying the coronavirus outbreak will push the US into a recession, Goldman Sachs on Friday updated its estimates and now thinks the fallout could be even worse than it expected. Goldman Sachs dramatically cut its US economic forecast and is now expecting gross domestic product to decline by 24% in the second quarter of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. A drop of that size would be a record, nearly 2 1/2 times the 10% drop seen in 1958. "The sudden stop in US economic activity in response to the virus is unprecedented, and the early data points over the last week strengthen our confidence that ... (full story)

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