Real gross domestic product -- the value of the goods and services produced by the nation's
economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production, adjusted for price
changes -- increased at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the second quarter of 2015, according to the
"second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased
0.6 percent.
The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for
the "advance" estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was 2.3
percent. With the second estimate for the second quarter, nonresidential fixed investment and private
inventory investment increased. With the advance estimate, both of these components were estimated to
have slightly decreased (see "Revisions" on page 2).
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter reflected positive contributions from personal
consumption expenditures (PCE), exports, state and local government spending, nonresidential fixed
investment, residential fixed investment, and private inventory investment. Imports, which are a
subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
The acceleration in real GDP in the second quarter reflected an upturn in exports, an acceleration
in PCE, a deceleration in imports, an upturn in state and local government spending, and an acceleration
in nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by decelerations in private inventory
investment, in federal government spending, and in residential fixed investment.
Real gross domestic income (GDI) -- the value of the costs incurred and the incomes earned in
the production of goods and services in the nation's economy -- increased 0.6 percent in the second
quarter, compared with an increase of 0.4 percent (revised) in the first. The average of real GDP and
real GDI, a supplemental measure of U.S. economic activity that equally weights GDP and GDI,
increased 2.1 percent in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 0.5 percent in the first quarter.
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FOOTNOTE. Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise
specified. Percent changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. "Real" estimates are
in chained (2009) dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.
This news release is available on BEA's Web site.
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The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
increased 1.5 percent in the second quarter, in contrast to a decrease of 1.6 percent in the first quarter.
Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 1.2 percent,
compared with an increase of 0.2 percent.
Real gross domestic purchases -- purchases by U.S. residents of goods and services wherever
produced -- increased 3.4 percent in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 2.5 percent in the
first.
Current-dollar GDP -- the market value of the goods and services produced by the nation's
economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production -- increased 5.9 percent, or
$252.7 billion, in the second quarter to a level of $17,902.0 billion. In the first quarter, current-dollar
GDP increased 0.8 percent, or $33.3 billion.
Revisions
The upward revision to the percent change in real GDP primarily reflected upward revisions to
nonresidential fixed investment, to private inventory investment, to state and local government
spending, and to PCE and a downward revision to imports. For information on revisions, see "The
Revisions to GDP, GDI, and Their Major Components."
Advance Estimate Second Estimate
(Percent change from preceding quarter)
Real GDP............................... 2.3 3.7
Current-dollar GDP..................... 4.4 5.9
Real GDI............................... --- 0.6
Average of GDP and GDI................. --- 2.1
Gross domestic purchases price index... 1.4 1.5
For the first quarter of 2015, real GDI was revised up 0.1 percentage point, from 0.3 percent to
0.4 percent.
Corporate Profits
Profits from current production
Profits from current production (corporate profits with inventory valuation adjustment (IVA) and
capital consumption adjustment (CCAdj)) increased $47.5 billion in the second quarter, in contrast to a
decrease of $123.0 billion in the first.
Profits of domestic financial corporations increased $33.9 billion in the second quarter, in
contrast to a decrease of $23.4 billion in the first. Profits of domestic nonfinancial corporations
increased $16.5 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $70.5 billion. The rest-of-the-world component of
profits decreased $2.9 billion, compared with a decrease of $29.0 billion. This measure is calculated as
the difference between receipts from the rest of the world and payments to the rest of the world. In the
second quarter, receipts increased $6.0 billion, and payments increased $8.9 billion.
Taxes on corporate income increased $28.3 billion in the second quarter, compared with an
increase of $5.5 billion in the first. Profits after tax with IVA and CCAdj increased $19.2 billion, in
contrast to a decrease of $128.4 billion.
Dividends increased $1.0 billion in the second quarter, compared with an increase of $6.3 billion
in the first. Undistributed profits increased $18.2 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $134.7 billion. Net
cash flow with IVA -- the internal funds available to corporations for investment -- increased $28.0
billion, in contrast to a decrease of $135.5 billion.
The IVA and CCAdj are adjustments that convert inventory withdrawals and depreciation of
fixed assets reported on a tax-return, historical-cost basis to the current-cost economic measures used in
the national income and product accounts. The IVA decreased $78.1 billion in the second quarter, in
contrast to an increase of $45.7 billion. The CCAdj increased $8.0 billion, in contrast to a decrease of
$208.1 billion.
Gross value added of nonfinancial domestic corporate business
Real gross value added of nonfinancial corporations decreased in the second quarter. Profits per
unit of real value added increased, reflecting an increase in unit prices that was partly offset by an
increase in unit labor costs; unit nonlabor costs were unchanged.
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Next release -- September 25, 2015 at 8:30 A.M. EDT for:
Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2015 (Third Estimate)
Corporate Profits: Second Quarter 2015 (Revised Estimate)
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