5月に発表されたGDPは3ヶ月前に予想された大方の弱気見通しを覆してしまいました。エコノミストが2四半期連続で外しています。
Annual GDP pace hit 3.3% in quarter
Despite growing signs of a global economic slowdown, Japan's gross domestic product expanded at a better-than-expected 3.3 percent annualized rate in the January-March quarter as exporters continued to increase shipments to emerging countries, the Cabinet Office said Friday.
3ヶ月前と同じようなことを言っています。懲りない連中ですね。2度までは間違いで住みますけど、3回外すともはやプロとは言えないでしょう。閏年なんて3ヶ月前にもわかっていたことなんですが・・・・・。
But analysts warned that the economic expansion is likely to lose steam in the coming months as the growth in the last quarter was largely the result of technical factors, including an extra day in February due to the leap year that inflated the data.