5 Things to Watch in the Fourth Quarter GDP Report

Wall Street Journal, Jan. 28, 2016–Sparshott, Jeffrey

The Commerce Department publishes its first look at the economy’s performance in the fourth quarter at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal forecast a paltry 0.8% seasonally adjusted annual growth rate for gross domestic product, the broadest measure of output. That would be a slowdown from the third quarter’s 2% pace.

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