Real gross domestic product – the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the U.S. – increased at an annual rate of 1 percent in the second quarter of 2011, (that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to the second estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.4 percent.
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These GDP estimates are 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 1.3 percent.
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), and federal government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions from state and local government spending and private inventory investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
The acceleration in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in imports, an upturn in federal government spending, and an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by decelerations in PCE and in exports and a downturn in private inventory investment.
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