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Workers drive among shipping containers and trailers at a BNSF intermodal terminal, Jan. 3, 2024, in Edgerton, Kan. On Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, the government issues the second of three estimates of GDP growth in the United States during the October-December quarter. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

US economy grew solid 3.2% in fourth quarter, a slight downgrade from government's initial estimate

The U.S. economy grew at a robust 3.2% annual pace from October through December, propelled by healthy consumer spending, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday in a slight downgrade from its initial estimate

By PAUL WISEMAN
Published - Feb 28, 2024, 08:39 AM ET
Last Updated - Feb 28, 2024, 12:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a robust 3.2% annual pace from October through December, propelled by healthy consumer spending, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday in a slight downgrade from its initial estimate. 

The expansion in the nation's gross domestic product — the economy's total output of goods and services — slipped from a red-hot 4.9% from July through September. The fourth-quarter GDP numbers were revised down from the 3.3% pace Commerce initially reported last month. U.S. growth has now topped 2% for six straight quarters, defying fears that high interest rates would tip the world's largest economy into a recession. 

Far from stumbling, the economy grew 2.5% for all of 2023, topping the 1.9% growth in 2022.  

The United States is expected to keep churning in 2024. The International Monetary Fund expects the American economy to expand 2.1% this year — more than twice its forecasts for growth in the major advanced economies Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy. 

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