The U.S. economy grew at a much faster pace than expected in the final three months of 2023.
The U.S. easily avoided a recession that many had forecast as inevitable, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Thursday 25th January 2024.
Gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of all the goods and services produced, increased at a 3.3% annualised rate in the final quarter of 2023, according to data from the Commerce Department.
Wall Street consensus was for a figure of 2%.
U.S. BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis
