The gross domestic product (GDP) of USA experienced a 0.6% increase in the third quarter of 2022according to the first estimate of the data published this Thursday by the Office of Economic Analysis of the US government (BEA).
In this way, the United States left the technical recession in which it had entered in the second quarter, when the economy contracted by 0.1%, after having observed a fall of 0.4% in the first three months of the year. Technical recession is called, according to the consensus of economists, the economic situation that occurs when two quarters of economic contraction are chained together.
The BEA He explained that, between July and September, there was a small decrease in investment in private inventories, although non-residential fixed investment accelerated and government spending increased. Residential fixed investment also fell and consumer spending slowed.
In purely annualized terms, the Bureau’s preferred way of presenting the data, the US GDP rose 2.6% in the third quarter of the year, compared to the decrease of 0.6% in the second quarter. The annualized decline in the first quarter was 1.6%.
In the third quarter, the BEA has indicated that the saving rate of Americans was 3.3%, one tenth less than in the previous three months. On its side, disposable income increased 1.7%, after falling 1.5% between April and June.
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