Thursday, January 30, 2014 The economy grew 3.2 percent in the final quarter of 2013, shrugging off the effects of the fall’s government shutdown and debt standoff, and raising hopes that the recovery is finally getting more robust.
The pace of expansion in October, November and December slowed a bit from the third quarter, when the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.1 percent. The fourth-quarter number, which is the Commerce Department’s first estimate of the economy’s performance in the period, was about the same as what economists had been expecting.
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Thursday, January 30th 2014 at 12:06PM
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