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US first-quarter GDP contraction revised to -0.5% vs. -0.2% expected
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US first-quarter GDP contraction revised to -0.5% vs. -0.2% expected
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2025.06.26 22:02
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- US' GDP contracted at an annual rate of 0.5% in Q1.
- USD Index stays deep in the red below 97.50.
The United States' Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted at an annual rate of 0.5% in the first quarter, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced on Thursday. This reading came in worse than the previous estimate and the market expectation of -0.2%.
"The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending. These movements were partly offset by increases in investment and consumer spending," the BEA explained in its press release and continued:
"Real GDP was revised down 0.3 percentage point from the second estimate, primarily reflecting downward revisions to consumer spending and exports that were partly offset by a downward revision to imports."
Market reaction
The US Dollar (USD) Index stays under bearish pressure in the American session on Thursday and was last seen losing 0.45% on the day at 97.25.
GDP FAQs
A country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the rate of growth of its economy over a given period of time, usually a quarter. The most reliable figures are those that compare GDP to the previous quarter e.g Q2 of 2023 vs Q1 of 2023, or to the same period in the previous year, e.g Q2 of 2023 vs Q2 of 2022. Annualized quarterly GDP figures extrapolate the growth rate of the quarter as if it were constant for the rest of the year. These can be misleading, however, if temporary shocks impact growth in one quarter but are unlikely to last all year - such as happened in the first quarter of 2020 at the outbreak of the covid pandemic, when growth plummeted.
A higher GDP result is generally positive for a nation's currency as it reflects a growing economy, which is more likely to produce goods and services that can be exported, as well as attracting higher foreign investment. By the same token, when GDP falls it is usually negative for the currency. When an economy grows people tend to spend more, which leads to inflation. The country's central bank then has to put up interest rates to combat the inflation with the side effect of attracting more capital inflows from global investors, thus helping the local currency appreciate.
When an economy grows and GDP is rising, people tend to spend more which leads to inflation. The country's central bank then has to put up interest rates to combat the inflation. Higher interest rates are negative for Gold because they increase the opportunity-cost of holding Gold versus placing the money in a cash deposit account. Therefore, a higher GDP growth rate is usually a bearish factor for Gold price.
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: 2025.06.26
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