All that optimism for hot first-quarter economic growth is rapidly fading away
March 14, 2018 at 12:12 PM EDT
Back in late January the Atlanta Fed was calling for a 5.4 percent GDP gain. It released a reading Wednesday for its widely followed GDP tracker that slashed that projection all the way down to 1.9 percent. That came with similar reductions from J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs.