{"id":331656,"date":"2025-12-23T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331656\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:29:08","slug":"us-economy-grows-at-fastest-pace-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331656\/","title":{"rendered":"US economy grows at fastest pace in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Growth this year has been buffeted by dramatic changes to trade and immigration policies, as well as cuts to government spending. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But while that has led to sharp swings in some areas, such as imports and exports, the underlying economy has maintained solid momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Analysts said the pick-up in consumer spending in the third quarter of the year was driven by more being spent on health care services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Imports &#8211; which count against growth &#8211; continued to decline, reflecting the wave of taxes on shipments entering the US that President Donald Trump announced this spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile exports, which had dropped sharply,  bounced back, surging by 7.4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growth this year has been buffeted by dramatic changes to trade and immigration policies, as well as cuts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-331656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}