The U.S. economy expanded at a 3% annual pace in the second quarter, masking signs of weakness as businesses and consumers grappled with how to respond to ongoing trade wars. Gross domestic product, ...

The economy contracted at a 0.2% annual rate in the first quarter of 2025, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday in a revision to its estimate of GDP. A preliminary report from the agency ...

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U.S. gross domestic product grew by 2.3% in the fourth quarter of 2024 after expanding by 3.1% in the third quarter. Consumption, net exports, and government spending contributed positively to Q4 GDP ...

Economic growth for the second quarter was revised up three-tenths of a percentage point to a 3.3% annual rate, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Wednesday in its first revision of the data. The ...

Economic growth came in pretty strong for the fourth quarter of 2024. As we learned on Thursday, GDP rose at an annual rate of 2.3%. And consumer spending is a key contributor. It rose 4.2% for the ...

Metro and non-metro Missouri counties had similar rates of GDP growth in 2023, but non-metro counties trailed national averages. Missouri ranked 25th in the nation for GDP growth in 2023. That’s ...

The World Bank is predicting broadly slower growth for the next two years in the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The World Bank forecast published this month, titled Global Economic ...

Consumer spending growth was revised up to +2.5% in Q2. The first estimate had pegged consumer spending growth at a worrisomely anemic 1.4%, the second estimate at 1.6%. Private fixed investment was ...

The role of imports in GDP—Gross Domestic Product—confuses many people. The current political discussion about tariffs has triggered some of the misunderstanding. This article aims to help business ...