There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...

Gross domestic product plays an outsize role in how we think of what the American economy creates. It’s what the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis refers to as its “featured measure of production.” ...

GDP might show a big pop on Wednesday, but not because the U.S. economy has gotten much better. It hasn’t. Here’s how to scope out the second-quarter report on gross domestic product, the official ...

Thursday morning was the “third time’s the charm” for the federal government’s number-crunchers — the Bureau of Economic Analysis issued its third estimate of gross domestic product for the first ...

The output of the U.S. economy as measured by Gross Domestic Product bounced back more than previously thought in the second ...

Second-quarter GDP was revised up to a strong 3.8% rate. That comes after the GDP contracted in the first quarter.