The Atlanta Fed\u2019s GDPNow model now estimates real GDP growth of 3.4% in the third quarter of 2025, up from 3.1% just six days earlier. If the estimate holds, it would mark the highest rate of growth since the third quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n
Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! <\/a> Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence.<\/p>\n The higher growth comes after August\u2019s retail sales<\/a> grew by 0.6% month-over-month, beating the expectation of 0.2%. Excluding volatile items, like autos and gas, retail sales<\/a> jumped by 0.7%, also beating the expectation of 0.4%.<\/p>\n Resilient Consumers Boost GDP as Net Exports Contribution Slides<\/p>\n In addition, the model now expects third-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth of 2.7%, up from its prior estimate of 2.3%. That indicates a resilient consumer, even as August\u2019s Consumer Price Index<\/a> (CPI) showed a month-over-month jump of 0.4%, the highest rate of growth since January.<\/p>\n Finally, the contribution of net exports to GDP fell to 0.08 percentage points from 0.23 percentage points following data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> released this morning.<\/p>\n Stay ahead of macro events with our up-to-the-minute Economic Calendar<\/a> \u2014 filter by impact, country, and more.<\/p>\n Disclaimer & Disclosure<\/a>Report an Issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Fed\u2019s GDPNow model now estimates real GDP growth of 3.4% in the third quarter of 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-161619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}