Revised estimate shows economy grew faster than thought during end of 2010

Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Economic growth was slightly better toward the end of 2010 than officials had previously estimated, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced Friday.

In its third estimate of the nation’s gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2010, the BEA said the economy grew by 3.1 percent from the end of Q3 to the end of Q4.

GDP is a measure of the output of all goods and services produced by labor and property located in the nation.

BEA’s third estimate is based on more complete data than was available when the BEA issued its second estimate of 2.8 percent growth.

“The fourth-quarter acceleration in real GDP primarily reflected a sharp downturn in imports, an

acceleration in PCE, an upturn in residential fixed investment, and an acceleration in exports that were

partly offset by downturns in private inventory investment, in federal government spending, and in state

and local government spending, and a deceleration in nonresidential fixed investment,” BEA officials said in a statement.

“Final sales of computers added 0.35 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP

after adding 0.29 percentage point to the third-quarter change. Motor vehicle output subtracted 0.27

percentage point from the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.49 percentage point to the

third-quarter change,” the agency concluded.

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