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The US Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated that real GDP contracted at an annualized rate of 0.3 percent in Q1 2025, the ...
Monthly GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.2% in March 2025 because of growth in the services and construction sectors, as ...
Consumers showed signs of weakness last month as retail sales slowed, indicating shoppers may be pulling back as they await ...
The BEA press release suggests this isn’t cause for concern, as the decline is mostly a statistical artifact: “The decrease ...
Experts use three main approaches to calculate GDP, which ideally should all lead to roughly the same number: 1. The Production (or Output) Method: This adds up the market value of all final goods ...
GDP printed at -0.3%, below market expectations, due to companies stocking up ahead of Trump's tariffs, impacting Net Exports. Click for more on U.S. Economy.
"GDP is backward-looking but there was some good news as real final sales to private domestic purchasers, the engine of the ...
Recent figures suggest progress but also mask critical gaps in methodology, data collection and lived experiences.
Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and author of GDP: A Brief But Affectionate ...
"The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending," a Bureau of ...
The White House is defending its economic policies after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its advance estimate for ...