GDP was put as being up by 1.7% on the headline GDP. Dow Jones had an estimate of 0.9% and Bloomberg had the consensus estimate at 1.1%. The first-quarter growth in GDP was up by 1.1%. Another GDP report will be the second look on August 29.
Wednesday’s BEA report said:
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), exports, non-residential fixed investment, private inventory investment, and residential investment that were partly offset by a negative contribution from federal government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
Growth in the second quarter reflected upturns in nonresidential fixed investment and in exports. There also was a smaller decrease in federal government spending, followed by higher spending at the state and local government levels. Additional points are as follows:
- The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 0.3% in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 1.2% in the first.
- Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases rose by 0.8% in the second quarter, compared with 1.4% in the first.
- Real personal consumption expenditures rose by 1.8% in the second quarter, versus an increase of 2.3% in the first quarter.
- Durable goods increased 6.5%, compared with an increase of 5.8% in the first quarter.
- Nondurable goods rose by 2.0%, compared with an increase of 2.7%.
- Services increased 0.9%, compared with an increase of 1.5%.
- Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 1.5% in the second quarter, compared with a decrease of 8.4% in the first.
- National defense spending fell by 0.5%, compared with a decrease of 11.2%. Nondefense spending decreased 3.2%, compared with a decrease of 3.6%.
- Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross investment increased 0.3%, versus a decrease of 1.3%.
- Real private inventories added 0.41 percentage point to the second-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.93 percentage point to the first-quarter change.
- Real final sales of domestic product rose by 1.3% in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 0.2% in the first.
Now that GDP is stronger than expected, and with strong ADP payrolls, we have S&P 500 futures down by two points and DJIA futures down 31 points. Again, all of the revisions and the change in methodology were setting today’s GDP report to be a wild card or even overlooked.
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