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Despite the big gain in real GDP growth in the quarter, underlying real GDP growth abstracting from the quarterly vagaries of ...

Don’t celebrate just yet. Two key factoids in that article are 1) consumer spending “constitutes roughly 70%” of the ...

The U.S. economy surged between April and June after shrinking in the first three months of the year, driven by a large shift in imports tied to President Trump's trade policies. The country's GDP ...

The U.S. economy did not quite manage 3% annual economic growth during Joe Biden’s four years as president. Real (that is, inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product grew an annualized 2.8% from his ...

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 ...

GDP rose 4.3% in the Q3 of 2025, driven by strong consumer spending and trade shifts that fueled growth and eased concerns ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted the latest gross domestic product (GDP) data that showed a rebound from the first quarter and also repeated his call for the Federal Reserve to cut interest ...