The market’s reaction to last week’s US GDP figures is somewhat baffling to us. The 2.4% annualized pace of growth certainly missed the ambitious 2.6% that consensus had been predicting, but in absolute terms this was still an extremely robust figure for a fully developed economy. Furthermore, the massive upward revision to last quarter’s reading (from 2.7% annualized quarterly growth to 3.7%)…

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