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BEA News: Gross Domestic Product by Industry, 2nd quarter 2019 and annual update

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release:

Professional, scientific, and technical services; real estate and rental and leasing; and mining were the leading contributors to the increase in U.S. economic growth in the second quarter of 2019.

The private goods‐ and services‐producing industries, as well as the government sector, contributed to the increase. Overall, 14 of 22 industry groups contributed to the 2.0 percent increase in real GDP in the second quarter.

The full text of the release [archived PDF] on BEA’s website can be found here.

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