WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said Thursday in an upgrade of its initial assessment. The Commerce Department had previously estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product — the total output of goods and services —
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This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Economists and investors have been on consumer-slump watch over the past couple of months. Warnings signs included a slump in retail sales in June and Amazon’s CFO flagging “cautious consumers.” Analysts were bracing
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