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US Economy Hits Soft Patch But Some See It as 'Temporary' tiffany pendants The economy has struck a soft patch that is likely temporary, and the second half of the year should be better, some economists say. Getty Images tiffany men's necklace Supply chain disruptions form the Japanese earthquake and tsunami have had a direct impact on manufacturing and the auto industry in particular. Additionally, the spike in oil and gasoline prices has hit consumer and business spending. "We can put our finger on the problems, and they're temporary, I think," said Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com. "Oil prices were a blow. You can see that in the consumer spending numbers in Q1, and prices are coming back down." tiffany necklace silver Friday's sharp 11.6 percent decline in April pending home sales was among the latest in a string of disappointing economic reports. Consumer spending was also softer in April, up just 0.4 percent, the smallest amount in three months. But consumer sentiment, also reported Friday, was a positive surprise. Overall sentiment rose to 74.3 in May from 69.8 in April, but it is still below February's 77.5. tiffany necklace white gold Other soft data this past week includes the second look at first quarter GDP, still a sluggish 1.8 percent, while economists had expected it to rise above 2 percent. tiffany necklace white gold J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli expects second quarter GDP to be nearly as weak as the first quarter, but he expects the second half of the year to climb to 3 percent. "Right now, we have 2.5 percent (for second quarter) but with significant downside risk...I think you should get some rebound in the third quarter, the second half more generally. Gasoline prices easing off does remove a big burden. You should get a bounce in industrial activity when he Japanese-related activity comes back," he said. Zandi and other economists do not expect to see a strong showing in May employment data, reported next week. Zandi has dropped his expectation for non-farm payrolls to under 200,000, well below April's 244,000. AP / AP Weather has had some impact on weekly jobless claims data, and the auto shutdowns have also been a factor. The rise in unemployment claims - above 400,000 for the past seven weeks - suggest the rate of hiring is slowing. "All these sort of things kind of sapped some of the growth, and that will be reflected in the jobs number. We had been getting a fair amount of growth in manufacturing...I think that will be on the soft side because of the quake," he said. Zandi said there are some wild cards that could hurt the economy, such as the decline in real estate prices, the sovereign debt issues in Europe or another spike in oil prices. "I think it would be worrisome if they didn't help the Greeks, and the Greeks restructure their debt. That would be a default. That would be a kind of Lehman moment for Europe," he said. Goldman Sachs economists this week shaved their outlook for second quarter growth to 3 percent from 3.5 percent. Their original forecast had been for 4 percent second-quarter growth. Goldman Sachs economists Andrew Tilton said the ripple effect from supply chain issues were a big part of the reason for the reduction. "We estimated it was a bit more than a half a point off Q2 growth. That doesn't explain all the weakness relative to our original forecast. There are other things going on, the most obvious of which is oil prices," he said. Tilton said a jump in gasoline prices can have a meaningful effect on consumers within a quarter. "If oil is coming back down you certainly wouldn't want to be cutting your growth forecast for the second half of the year," he said. Gasoline experts are forecasting the decline in retail gasoline prices that have been underway for nearly two weeks will continue. The national average at the pump Friday was $3.80 per gallon, down from a year high of $3.98 per gallon on May 13, according to AAA. RELATED LINKS Current DateTime: 05:26:28 30 May 2011 LinksList Documentid: 43216067 * Markets Have Lots to Worry About * Hopes for Rebound Are Fading * More Fed Easing on Way? * Market Bears are Back * Quake Still Rocking US Economy "In so far as you think it's supply chain-related, the deeper the cutback due to supply chain factors now, the better you should feel about second half because it should bounce back," said Tilton. Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian, however, expects the second half to be weak, and he sees this year following the same pattern as last year. But last year, when the economy weakened, it was supported by fiscal stimulus and the Fed's quantitative easing program and neither are likely this year. "The good news is the possibility of a double dip is much lower," he said in a brief interview. RBS chief economist Michelle Girard had been expecting a soft second quarter, and it is slightly weaker than she had expected. "The consumer is a bit more constrained because of the run-up in gasoline in March and April," she said. But she still sees a better second half. "I still think the second quarter is giving us the disappointment I feared would occur. The important thing is I still have not changed the second-half outlook. We still feel the second half will show the acceleration. I feel just as good about that as I did before. I think the decline in gasoline prices bodes very well for the consumer. On the supply disruption, everybody is anticipating that we get a ramp-up in production for (what) was lost. There's no indication that the auto industry is rethinking the bigger picture," she said. Girard cut her forecast for the second quarter recently to 2.7 percent from 3 percent, but she expects 4 percent growth for the second half. Zandi said one positive is the fact that interest rates have fallen recently. "Mortgage rates are 4.6 percent, so refinancing activity is going to pick up again," he said. "I think the underlying dynamics are positive and there are ebbs and flows, and right now we are ebbing," said Zandi.

.How to stop rip-off retailers Do you know why we pay more for games, for books, for clothes, for pretty much everything in this country? It's not just a matter of distance, or an industrial system that provides a much better basic wage for low income earners than, say, the US. We also pay way over the odds so that guys like Gerry Harvey don't see their fortunes and business model eaten away from the inside by small, fast-moving internet retail startups. tiffany mens necklace There is a Productivity Commission inquiry into all this right now, and it got some publicity last week because Choice finally made their submission, pointing out that Emperor Gerry and his big retail mates had no clothes on. They're walking around naked, turkey slapping us in the high street, just because they can. Not only is there no excuse for us paying higher prices while the dollar remains well above parity with the greenback, for a whole class of goods, distributed digitally, there's not even the excuse of transport or large labour costs to justify the mark-up down under. Advertisement: Story continues below Read this article over at kotaku.com and see if you can get to the end before your blood boils completely away. This is the sort of reporting we don't see a lot of in the mainstream media because the mainstream media doesn't care about the price of things like The Witcher 2. Not in the way that gamers do. tiffany necklace silver Long story short, kotaku interviewed Guillaume Rambourg from Gog.com, a digital distributor competing with bricks and mortar retail outlets like EB Games. He was remarkably frank about the reason why we pay nearly double for products that have no physical presence in the world, that don't need to be put onto planes or ships, or driven out to a Westfield to take up display space. The reason we pay a massive markup to download a game, or a song on iTunes, the reason overseas retailers often won't take our Australian credit cards, forcing us to purchase the more expensive version of the same product here, is because Australian retailers have pressured them into doing so. tiffany braceletGo read the piece. It's totally worth it. I can't wait to see what the Productivity Commission makes of all this. In the end, I suspect market forces will plough these guys under anyway, but until then there are some simple things we can do. Get yourself a US credit card if possible. Shop on overseas websites using a masked server like hidemyass.com or invisiblesurfing.com to disguise your location. Or use a website such as shopUSA.com who will allow you to use their American address as a drop off point for your online purchases, before shipping them on to you down here. tiffany necklace white gold This is one of those instances when you can't expect the government to make it better for you. Retail is a multibillion dollar industry, with massive political power. No politician is going to do anything that gets them offside. But that doesn't mean we have to bend over and take it. tiffany rings The power to do to these bastards what they've been doing to us is at our finger tips. Literally.

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Comparison between Blogger & WordPress on important Features they Provide

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