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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Q4 GDP Growth Revised down to 6.9% Annual Rate

by Calculated Risk on 3/30/2022 08:36:00 AM

From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), Corporate Profits, and GDP by Industry, Fourth Quarter and Year 2021

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 6.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the "third" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.3 percent.

The "third" estimate of GDP released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the "second" estimate issued last month. In the second estimate, the increase in real GDP was 7.0 percent. The downward revision primarily reflected downward revisions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and exports that were partly offset by an upward revision to private inventory investment.
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Here is a Comparison of Third and Second Estimates. PCE growth was revised down from 3.1% to 2.5%. Residential investment was revised up from 1.0% to 2.2%.