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2Q2014 GDP advance estimate increased 4.0%
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Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 4.0 percent in the second quarter of 2014, according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 2.1 percent (revised).
The Bureau emphasized that the second-quarter advance estimate released today is based on source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page 3 and "Comparisons of Revisions to GDP" on page 10). The "second" estimate for the second quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on August 28, 2014.
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, exports, nonresidential fixed investment, state and local government spending, and residential fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
For the first quarter of 2014, real GDP is now estimated to have declined 2.1 percent; in the previously published estimates, first-quarter GDP was estimated to have declined 2.9 percent. The 0.8 percentage point upward revision to the percent change in first-quarter real GDP primarily reflected upward revisions to private inventory investment, to nonresidential fixed investment, and to PCE.
Posted: July 30, 2014 Wednesday 08:30 AM