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Second quarter ends on a high note

The data released in the last week of the second quarter added to other evidence suggesting that the economy is getting back on track after a disastrous first quarter. This provided further tentative support to our recent decision to bring forward our forecast for the timing of the first interest rate hike and to raise our projections of where rates will be at the end of 2015 and 2016.

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