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Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2014 (third estimate); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 2014 (revised estimate)
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014
according to the "third" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of
2013, real GDP increased 2.6 percent.
The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for
the "second" estimate issued last month. In the second estimate, real GDP was estimated to have
decreased 1.0 percent. With the third estimate for the first quarter, the increase in personal consumption
expenditures (PCE) was smaller than previously estimated, and the decline in exports was larger than
previously estimated (for more information, see "Revisions" on page 3).
The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected negative contributions from
private inventory investment, exports, state and local government spending, nonresidential fixed
investment, and residential fixed investment that were partly offset by a positive contribution from PCE.
Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
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Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts
The annual revision of the national income and product accounts will be released along with the
"advance" estimate of GDP for the second quarter of 2014 on July 30. In addition to the regular revision
of estimates for the most recent 3 years and for the first quarter of 2014, GDP and select components
will be revised back to the first quarter of 1999. More information is available in "Preview of Upcoming
NIPA Revision" in the May Survey of Current Business and on BEA's Web site.
The August Survey will contain an article describing the annual revision in detail.
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 (2009)
dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.
This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights
related to this release. For information on revisions, see "Revisions to GDP, GDI, and Their Major Components".
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Real GDP declined 2.9 percent in the first quarter, after increasing 2.6 percent in the fourth. This
downturn in the percent change in real GDP primarily reflected a downturn in exports, a larger decrease
in private inventory investment, a deceleration in PCE, and downturns in nonresidential fixed
investment and in state and local government spending that were partly offset by an upturn in federal
government spending.
The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
increased 1.3 percent in the first quarter, the same increase as in the second estimate; this index
increased 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter. Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross
domestic purchases increased 1.3 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.8 percent in
the fourth.
Real personal consumption expenditures increased 1.0 percent in the first quarter, compared with
an increase of 3.3 percent in the fourth. Durable goods increased 1.2 percent, compared with an increase
of 2.8 percent. Nondurable goods decreased 0.3 percent, in contrast to an increase of 2.9 percent.
Services increased 1.5 percent, compared with an increase of 3.5 percent.
Real nonresidential fixed investment decreased 1.2 percent in the first quarter, in contrast to an
increase of 5.7 percent in the fourth. Nonresidential structures decreased 7.7 percent, compared with a
decrease of 1.8 percent. Equipment decreased 2.8 percent, in contrast to an increase of 10.9 percent.
Intellectual property products increased 6.3 percent, compared with an increase of 4.0 percent. Real
residential fixed investment decreased 4.2 percent, compared with a decrease of 7.9 percent.
Real exports of goods and services decreased 8.9 percent in the first quarter, in contrast to an
increase of 9.5 percent in the fourth. Real imports of goods and services increased 1.8 percent,
compared with an increase of 1.5 percent.
Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment increased 0.6 percent
in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease of 12.8 percent in the fourth. National defense decreased 2.5
percent, compared with a decrease of 14.4 percent. Nondefense increased 5.9 percent, in contrast to a
decrease of 10.0 percent. Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross
investment decreased 1.7 percent; it was unchanged in the fourth quarter.
The change in real private inventories subtracted 1.70 percentage points from the first-quarter
change in real GDP, after subtracting 0.02 percentage point from the fourth-quarter change. Private
businesses increased inventories $45.9 billion in the first quarter, following increases of $111.7 billion
in the fourth quarter and $115.7 billion in the third.
Real final sales of domestic product -- GDP less change in private inventories -- decreased 1.3
percent in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of 2.7 percent in the fourth.
Gross domestic purchases
Real gross domestic purchases -- purchases by U.S. residents of goods and services wherever
produced -- decreased 1.4 percent in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of 1.6 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 -- decreased 3.6 percent in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of 3.1
percent in the fourth. GNP includes, and GDP excludes, net receipts of income from the rest of the
world, which decreased $27.4 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of $17.0 billion in the
fourth; in the first quarter, receipts decreased $9.8 billion, and payments increased $17.6 billion.
Current-dollar GDP
Current-dollar GDP -- the market value of the nation's output of goods and services -- decreased
1.7 percent, or $73.6 billion, in the first quarter to a level of $17,016.0 billion. In the fourth quarter,
current-dollar GDP increased 4.2 percent, or $176.7 billion.
Gross domestic income
Real gross domestic income (GDI), which measures the output of the economy as the costs
incurred and the incomes earned in the production of GDP, decreased 2.6 percent in the first quarter, in
contrast to an increase of 2.6 percent in the fourth. For a given quarter, the estimates of GDP and GDI
may differ for a variety of reasons, including the incorporation of largely independent source data.
However, over longer time spans, the estimates of GDP and GDI tend to follow similar patterns of
change.
Revisions
The downward revision to the percent change in real GDP primarily reflected downward
revisions to personal consumption expenditures and to exports and an upward revision to imports.
Advance Estimate Second Estimate Third Estimate
(Percent change from preceding quarter)
Real GDP..................................... 0.1 -1.0 -2.9
Current-dollar GDP........................... 1.4 0.3 -1.7
Real GDI..................................... … -2.3 -2.6
Gross domestic purchases price index......... 1.4 1.3 1.3
Corporate Profits
Profits from current production
Profits from current production (corporate profits with inventory valuation adjustment (IVA) and
capital consumption adjustment (CCAdj)) decreased $198.3 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to an
increase of $47.1 billion in the fourth. The IVA decreased $33.2 billion, compared with a decrease of
$0.5 billion. The CCAdj decreased $195.3 billion, compared with a decrease of $1.5 billion. The IVA
and CCAdj 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.
Taxes on corporate income increased $27.8 billion in the first quarter, compared with an increase
of $13.3 billion in the fourth. Profits after tax with IVA and CCAdj decreased $226.0 billion, in contrast
to an increase of $33.8 billion. The first-quarter changes in taxes on corporate income and in the CCAdj
mainly reflect the expiration of bonus depreciation provisions. For further explanation, see the box
below.
Dividends decreased $87.1 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to an increase of $90.5 billion
in the fourth. Undistributed profits decreased $139.1 billion, compared with a decrease of $56.7 billion.
Net cash flow with IVA -- the internal funds available to corporations for investment -- decreased
$119.5 billion, compared with a decrease of $43.0 billion.
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Impacts of Bonus Depreciation on the First Quarter of 2014
The first-quarter changes in taxes on corporate income and in the capital consumption
adjustment (CCAdj) mainly reflect the expiration of both the 50-percent bonus depreciation provision
and increased Section 179 expensing limits claimed under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
For detailed data, see the table "Net Effects of the Tax Acts of 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012
on Selected Measures of Corporate Profits".
Bonus depreciation does not affect profits from current production. Profits from current
production are based on consistent depreciation profiles of fixed assets valued at current cost, not on the
depreciation-accounting practices used for federal income tax returns. For a discussion on the effect of
tax act provisions on the CCAdj, see FAQ 1002, "How do the economic stimulus acts impact NIPA
Corporate Profits?".
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The rest-of-the-world component of profits decreased $25.7 billion in the first quarter, in contrast
to an increase of $22.9 billion in the fourth. This measure is calculated as the difference between
receipts from the rest of the world and payments to the rest of the world.
Domestic corporate profits with IVA
Profits of financial corporations decreased $52.6 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to an
increase of $6.1 billion in the fourth. This decrease was almost entirely accounted for by "other"
financial industries. Profits of nonfinancial corporations increased $75.4 billion, compared with an
increase of $19.5 billion. This increase primarily reflected increases in "other" nonfinancial industries,
in utilities industries, in durable-goods manufacturing industries, and in information industries that were
partly offset by a decrease in nondurable-goods manufacturing industries.
Gross value added of nonfinancial domestic corporate business
In the first quarter, both real gross value added of nonfinancial corporations and profits per unit
of real value decreased. The decrease in unit profits reflected increases in unit labor and nonlabor costs
incurred by corporations that were partly offset by an increase in unit prices.
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Next release -- July 30, 2014 at 8:30 A.M. EDT for:
Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2014 (Advance Estimate)
Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts