March 4th Meeting: The Economy - Gary Keith, M&T

Throughout a 26-year career at M&T Bank, Gary D. Keith has provided economic research and analysis support to M&T's executive management and commercial banking business units. In addition to giving frequent updates to M&T customers, business and trade groups and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he writes a monthly column on regional economic trends for the Rochester Business Journal.

Keith has extensive experience tracking the Western New York economy and forecasting regional performance trends. Over the past two decades, as M&T expanded its geographic footprint beyond Upstate New York, his insights have been sharpened by observations on the economic "success factors" that can be applied to our own region.
He holds frequent discussions with M&T commercial customers, who are, in Keith's words, "his eyes and ears," helping to tie together the economic variables that describe the macroeconomy with real world decisions that businesses make every day.
Western New York performed much better than many areas of the country during the Great Recession. With the national economy beginning to expand again, it is better positioned to compete for new growth than in past recoveries.
The area's continuing transformation from an industrial to a service-based economy provides new opportunities for our region. The task going forward will be to capitalize on our economic assets and re-define the breadth and depth of the Western New York economy, both to outsiders and to local residents.

This meeting will be held Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 12:15pm in Shanghai Red's, 2 Templteon Terrace, Buffalo, NY 14202.

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