Friday 26 August 2016

Q2 GDP Revised Down to 1.1% Annual Rate

From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2016 (Second Estimate)
Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.1 percent in the second quarter of 2016, according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.8 percent.

The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the "advance" estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was 1.2 percent. With this second estimate for the second quarter, the general picture of economic growth remains the same; revisions to the components of GDP are small ...
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Here is a Comparison of Second and Advance Estimates. PCE growth was revised up from 4.2% to 4.4%. (Solid PCE).  Residential investment was revised down from -6.1% to -7.7%. This was close to the consensus forecast.

from
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CalculatedRisk/~3/7lX-dS1uPbk/q2-gdp-revised-down-to-11-annual-rate.html

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