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The U.S. economy shrank for a second quarter in a row—a common definition of recession—as businesses trimmed their inventories, the housing market buckled under rising interest rates, and high inflation took steam out of consumer spending.
Gross domestic product, a broad measure of the goods and services produced across the economy, fell at an inflation and seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.9% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That marked a deterioration from the 1.6% rate of contraction recorded...
Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth comprise one working definition of recession, says Wells Fargo senior economist Tim Quinlan—but it's not the official one: Instead, the definitive call is up to the National Bureau of Economic Research, which defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity" lasting "more than a few months."
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