{"id":201173,"date":"2026-04-30T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=201173"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:39:37","slug":"gdp-comes-in-at-tepid-2-rate-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=201173","title":{"rendered":"GDP Comes in at Tepid 2% Rate in First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC…Real gross domestic product<\/strong>\u00a0(GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent<\/a>\u00a0in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent.<\/p>\n

\"Real<\/a><\/div>\n

The\u00a0contributors to the increase in real GDP<\/a>\u00a0in the first quarter were investment, exports, consumer spending, and government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, also increased. For more information, refer to the “Technical Notes<\/a>” below.<\/p>\n

\"Contributions<\/a><\/div>\n

Compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, the acceleration in\u00a0real GDP<\/strong>\u00a0in the first quarter of 2026 reflected upturns in government spending and exports, and an acceleration in investment that were partly offset by a deceleration in consumer spending. Imports turned up.<\/p>\n

Real final sales to private domestic purchasers<\/strong>, the sum of consumer spending and gross private fixed investment, increased 2.5 percent<\/a>\u00a0in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0price index for gross domestic purchases<\/strong>\u00a0increased 3.6 percent<\/a>\u00a0in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter. The\u00a0personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index<\/strong>\u00a0increased 4.5 percent, compared with an increase of 2.9 percent, and the PCE price index excluding food and energy increased 4.3 percent, compared with an increase of 2.7 percent.<\/p>\n

\"Quarter-to-Quarter<\/a><\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Real GDP and Related Measures
\n[Percent change (SAAR) from 2025:Q4 to 2026:Q1]<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nAdvance Estimate<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Real GDP<\/th>\n2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Current-dollar GDP<\/th>\n5.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Real final sales to private domestic purchasers<\/th>\n2.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gross domestic purchases price index<\/th>\n3.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PCE price index<\/th>\n4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PCE price index excluding food and energy<\/th>\n4.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n
For definitions, statistical conventions, updates to GDP, and more information about national statistics, visit \u201cadditional information<\/a>.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC…Real gross domestic product\u00a0(GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent\u00a0in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent. The\u00a0contributors to the increase in real GDP\u00a0in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gdp1q26-adv-chart-01.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201175,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201173\/revisions\/201175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}