BEA Releases 1st Quarter Final Estimate GPD (June 2019)

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the first quarter of 2019 according to the ""third"" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2018 real GDP increased 2.2 percent. In the second estimate the increase in real GDP was also 3.1 percent. Upward revisions to nonresidential fixed investment exports state and local government spending and residential fixed investment were offset by downward revisions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and inventory investment and an upward revision to imports.

The increase in real GDP in the first quarter reflected positive contributions from exports PCE nonresidential fixed investment private inventory investment and state and local government spending that were slightly offset by a negative contribution from residential fixed investment. Imports which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP decreased. The acceleration in real GDP in the first quarter reflected an upturn in state and local government spending and accelerations in private inventory investment and in exports. These movements were partly offset by a deceleration in PCE. Imports decreased in the first quarter after increasing in the fourth.

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