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q4-2016-gross-domestic-product-slows
q4-2016-gross-domestic-product-slows

Q4 2016: Gross domestic product slows

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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.9% in the Q4 of 2016, according to the ‘advance’ estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 3.5%.

The increase in real GDP in the Q4 reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, nonresidential fixed investment, and state and local government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions from exports and federal government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

The deceleration in real GDP in the Q4 reflected a downturn in exports, an acceleration in imports, a deceleration in PCE, and a downturn in federal government spending that were partly offset by an upturn in residential fixed investment, an acceleration in private inventory investment, an upturn in state and local government spending, and an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment.

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