Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Market Sensitivity: Medium to high.
What Is It: The foremost report on the health of the economy, GDP measures how fast or slow the economy is growing.
News Release on Internet: www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/home/gdp.htm
Home Web Address: www.bea.doc.gov
Release Time: 8:30 A.M. (ET); advance estimates are released the final week of January, April, July, and October. Two rounds of revisions follow, each a month apart. (The Bureau of Economic Analysis expects to speed up the release of the GDP by two weeks in 2006.)
Frequency: Quarterly.
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce Department.
Revisions: Monthly revisions tend to be moderate, though they can on occasion be more substantial. There are also annual revisions ...
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