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NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs GS.N on Wednesday cut its forecast for third-quarter U.S. gross domestic product growth to 2.7 percent from 3.0 percent.

In a short client note released after the durable goods report, Goldman Sachs economists Jan Hatzius, Ed McKelvey and Andrew Tilton noted that shipments were somewhat weaker.

“The shipments of capital goods and total durable goods inventories are the last major piece of information feeding into tomorrow’s preliminary report on GDP growth,” they wrote.

“Based on this information as well as other data released in the past couple of weeks -- including complete book value inventory data for August -- we now estimate that real GDP rose at a 2.7 percent annual rate, somewhat less than the 3 percent annual rate that we had previously thought,” they said.

Data on GDP -- a gauge of economic growth, which the government will report on Thursday, is expected to show a rise of 3.3 percent, according to 77 analysts polled by Reuters.

The day before the September jobs report, Goldman economists increased their forecast of job losses to 250,000 from 200,000, a call that turned out to be much closer to the actual number of 263,000. (Reporting by Kristina Cooke, Editing by James Dalgleish)