Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, (that
is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau
of Economic Analysis.  In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 3.1 percent.

	The GDP estimates released today are 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 also
1.8 percent (see "Revisions" on page 3).

	The increase in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, exports, and nonresidential
fixed investment that were partly offset by negative contributions from federal government spending and
state and local government spending.  Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP,
increased.

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BOX.
                       Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts

      The annual revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) will be released along
with the "advance" estimate of GDP for the second quarter of 2011 on July 29.  In addition to the regular
revision of estimates for the most recent 3 years and the first quarter of 2011, GDP and some
components will be revised back to the first quarter of 2003 (see "Preview of the Upcoming Annual
NIPA Revision" in the May Survey of Current Business).  The August Survey will contain an article that
describes the annual revision in detail.
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FOOTNOTE.  Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual
rates, unless otherwise specified.  Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are
differences between these published estimates.  Percent changes are calculated
from unrounded data and are annualized.  "Real" estimates are in chained
(2005) dollars.  Price indexes are chain-type measures.

      This news release is available on BEAs Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights 
related to this release.
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      The deceleration in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected a sharp upturn in imports, a
deceleration in PCE, a larger decrease in federal government spending, and a deceleration in
nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by a sharp upturn in private inventory investment.

      Motor vehicle output added 1.28 percentage points to the first-quarter change in real GDP after
subtracting 0.27 percentage point from the fourth-quarter change.  Final sales of computers added 0.06
percentage point to the first-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.35 percentage point to the fourth-
quarter change.

	The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
increased 3.8 percent in the first quarter, unrevised from the advance estimate; this index increased 2.1
percent in the fourth quarter.  Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic
purchases increased 2.2 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.1 percent in the
fourth.

	Real personal consumption expenditures increased 2.2 percent in the first quarter, compared with
an increase of 4.0 percent in the fourth.  Durable goods increased 8.9 percent, compared with an increase
of 21.1 percent.  Nondurable goods increased 1.1 percent, compared with an increase of 4.1 percent.
Services increased 1.5 percent, the same increase as in the fourth.

      Real nonresidential fixed investment increased 3.4 percent in the first quarter, compared with an
increase of 7.7 percent in the fourth.  Nonresidential structures decreased 16.8 percent, in contrast to an
increase of 7.6 percent.  Equipment and software increased 11.6 percent, compared with an increase of
7.7 percent.  Real residential fixed investment decreased 3.3 percent, in contrast to an increase of 3.3
percent.

	Real exports of goods and services increased 9.2 percent in the first quarter, compared with an
increase of 8.6 percent in the fourth.  Real imports of goods and services increased 7.5 percent, in
contrast to a decrease of 12.6 percent.

	Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 7.9 percent
in the first quarter, compared with a decrease of 0.3 percent in the fourth.  National defense decreased
11.7 percent, compared with a decrease of 2.2 percent.  Nondefense increased 0.1 percent, compared
with an increase of 3.7 percent.  Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross
investment decreased 3.2 percent, compared with a decrease of 2.6 percent.

	The change in real private inventories added 1.19 percentage points to the first-quarter change in
real GDP, after subtracting 3.42 percentage points from the fourth-quarter change.  Private businesses
increased inventories $52.2 billion in the first quarter, following increases of $16.2 billion in the fourth
quarter and $121.4 billion in the third.

	Real final sales of domestic product -- GDP less change in private inventories -- increased 0.6
percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 6.7 percent in the fourth.


Gross domestic purchases

	Real gross domestic purchases -- purchases by U.S. residents of goods and services wherever
produced -- increased 1.8 percent in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease of 0.2 percent in the
fourth.


Gross national product

	Real gross national product -- the goods and services produced by the labor and property
supplied by U.S. residents -- increased 3.1 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 2.8
percent in the fourth.  GNP includes, and GDP excludes, net receipts of income from the rest of the
world, which increased $42.4 billion in the first quarter after decreasing $10.5 billion in the fourth; in
the first quarter, receipts increased $29.0 billion, and payments decreased $13.3 billion.


Current-dollar GDP

	Current-dollar GDP -- the market value of the nation's output of goods and services -- increased
3.8 percent, or $138.9 billion, in the first quarter to a level of $15,010.3 billion.  In the fourth quarter,
current-dollar GDP increased 3.5 percent, or $126.3 billion.


Revisions

	The "second" estimate of the first-quarter increase in real GDP is the same as the advance
estimate.  Upward revisions to exports, to private inventory investment, and to nonresidential fixed
investment were offset by an upward revision to imports and a downward revision to personal
consumption expenditures.

                                                 Advance Estimate   Second Estimate
                                              (Percent change from preceding quarter)

Real GDP..........................................      1.8               1.8
Current-dollar GDP................................      3.7               3.8
Gross domestic purchases price index..............      3.8               3.8



                                            Corporate Profits

	Profits from current production (corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital
consumption adjustments) increased $21.9 billion in the first quarter, compared with an increase of
$38.2 billion in the fourth quarter.  Current-production cash flow (net cash flow with inventory valuation
adjustment) -- the internal funds available to corporations for investment -- decreased $11.0 billion in
the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of $36.9 billion in the fourth.

	 Taxes on corporate income increased $33.6 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease
of $1.3 billion in the fourth.  Profits after tax with inventory valuation and capital consumption
adjustments decreased $11.6 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of $39.5 billion in the
fourth.  Dividends increased $15.4 billion compared with an increase of $8.9 billion; current-production
undistributed profits decreased $27.0 billion, in contrast to an increase of $30.6 billion.

	Domestic profits of financial corporations decreased $70.6 billion in the first quarter, in contrast
to an increase of $57.7 billion in the fourth.  Domestic profits of nonfinancial corporations increased
$45.8 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease of $10.1 billion in the fourth.  In the first
quarter, real gross value added of nonfinancial corporations increased, and profits per unit of real value
added increased.  The increase in unit profits reflected decreases in both the unit labor and nonlabor
costs corporations incurred; unit prices were unchanged.

	The rest-of-the-world component of profits increased $46.8 billion in the first quarter, in contrast
to a decrease of $9.4 billion in the fourth.  This measure is calculated as (1) receipts by U.S. residents of
earnings from their foreign affiliates plus dividends received by U.S. residents from unaffiliated foreign
corporations minus (2) payments by U.S. affiliates of earnings to their foreign parents plus dividends
paid by U.S. corporations to unaffiliated foreign residents.  The first-quarter increase was accounted for
by an increase in receipts and a decrease in payments.

	Profits before tax increased $113.8 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease of $48.3
billion in the fourth.  The before-tax measure of profits does not reflect, as does profits from current
production, the capital consumption and inventory valuation adjustments.  These adjustments convert
depreciation of fixed assets and inventory withdrawals reported on a tax-return, historical-cost basis to
the current-cost measures used in the national income and product accounts.  The capital consumption
adjustment decreased $90.1 billion in the first quarter (from -$15.8 billion to -$105.9 billion), in contrast
to an increase of $153.5 billion in the fourth.  The inventory valuation adjustment decreased $1.8 billion
(from -$103.2 billion to -$105.0 billion), compared with a decrease of $66.8 billion.

      The large decrease in the first-quarter capital consumption adjustment reflects the expiration of
"bonus depreciation" claimed under the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010.  (Current bonus
depreciation estimates are net of offsetting bonus depreciation that was claimed in earlier years.  For
detailed data, see the table "Net Effects of the Tax Acts of 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, and 2010 on
Selected Measures of Corporate Profits.)  Profits from current production are not affected because they do not 
depend on the depreciation-accounting practices used for federal income tax returns; rather they are based on 
depreciation of fixed assets valued at current cost and using consistent depreciation profiles based on 
used-asset prices.

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                            Next release -- June 24, 2011, at 8:30 A.M. EDT for:
                       Gross Domestic Product:  First Quarter 2011 (Third Estimate)
                              Corporate Profits:  First Quarter 2011 (Revised)