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Q1-2012 GDP Not Strong But No Recession Fears

Posted: April 27, 2012 at 8:47 am

The Commerce Department has released its first quarter's initial projection of Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2012.  The results are weaker than expected but they will put ...
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GDP Revisions… When Poor Growth Never Looked So Good

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 8:36 am

The revision for Gross Domestic Product is out and investors need to keep in mind that this is the third look at the fourth quarter GDP for 2011.  Bloomberg had ...
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GDP Surprise Revision Higher Shows 3% Growth

Posted: February 29, 2012 at 8:34 am

It is arguable over whether or not revisions matter too much on GDP numbers because the data is already so old.  Usually the importance only really matters if there is ...
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GDP Debunks Double Dip Recession Fears

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 8:38 am

The U.S. is still growing despite all of the world's troubles and despite the currency fluctuations.  The Commerce Department's  preliminary reading on Gross Domestic Product showed to have growth of  ...
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Q3 GDP Maintains Growth… The Recession Has To Wait

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 8:40 am

The news this morning is dominated by European bailout news, but we have a "recession watch" figure today.  This morning was the Gross Domestic Product for the third quarter in ...
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Marcellus Shale Gas Estimate Falls (CHK, RRC, COG, GDP)

Posted: August 24, 2011 at 4:45 pm

The US Geological Survey has released a new estimate of the amount of undiscovered natural gas in the Marcellus shale deposit. The original USGS estimate, made in 2002, projected a ...
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Q2 GDP: So Weak That A New Recession Now Looks More Than Possible

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 8:47 am

The Commerce Department is delivering some awful news on the second quarter preliminary Gross Domestic Product in the U.S.   GDP is coming in at a preliminary second quarter level of ...
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The 10 Companies That Will Save The American Economy

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 4:31 am

America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before ...
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The Congressional Budget Office Misplaces Two Million Jobs

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 5:13 am

The Congressional Budget Office is supposed to issue a quarterly report on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which is the centerpiece of the Administration's efforts to right the economy. ...
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Q4 GDP Lacks Major Recovery

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:47 am

The Commerce Department has released the fourth quarter of 2010 figures for Gross Domestic Product, or Gross National Product as it used to be called.  GDP came in on a ...
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Tax Reform And The Future Of GDP

Posted: September 13, 2010 at 5:17 am

Economists who specialize in the effects of taxes on GDP had often made a simple and rational forecast. Tax rates would rise in 2011 because individuals and businesses assumed that ...
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The Disappearing Greek Economy

Posted: September 8, 2010 at 6:03 am

The Greek economy has begun to disappear, or more appropriately, the process has begun to happen more quickly. Greece's 240 billion euro economy, about 2.5% of the euro zone, contracted ...
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GDP Down To 1.6%, Could Have Been Worse

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 8:40 am

The Department of Commerce cut its GDP figure to 1.6% from the previous estimate of 2.4%. The change was due to factors including inventory changes and the strength of imports. ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 8/27/2010 GDP Crash, Boeing Mistake, HP Bid

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 8:36 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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A Flicker Of Economic Life In Japan And The UK

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 5:20 am

There were tiny signs of life in two of the world's largest economies, anomalies in a period when the global economy may be falling into a double dip recession. Japan ...
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