Thursday, May 31, 2007

First-quarter growth weakest in over 4 years

(Reuters) - The Commerce Department revised down its estimate for first-quarter expansion in gross domestic product, or GDP, to 0.6 percent from 1.3 percent that it estimated a month ago.




It was the slowest rate of quarterly growth since the fourth quarter of 2002 when the economy edged ahead at a 0.2 percent rate and was below Wall Street economists' forecasts for a 0.8 percent quarterly growth rate.


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