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Economic Release Update: Personal Income and Outlays, September 2025
SUITLAND, Md. – Personal income and outlays data for the months of July, August, and September 2025 will be updated with the initial estimate of Gross Domestic Product for the third quarter of 2025 on Dec. 23 at 8:30 a.m.
Source Data: The Foundation for Valuable Economic Statistics
A blog post from BEA Director Vipin Arora
I’ve always thought that a good analogy for the way we develop our economic estimates at BEA is how a master watchmaker constructs a watch. The watchmaker starts with a blueprint for the design of the watch, just as we begin with the methods of our world-leading economic accounts. Based on that design, the watchmaker carefully selects and assembles the components of the watch. Similarly,…
Economic Release Schedule Updates
SUITLAND, Md. – The following updates to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule are currently available:
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Updated Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits (Revised) will be released on Jan. 22, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. This report will be the equivalent of a third estimate of quarterly GDP, replacing Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry,…
BEA’s Long History of Measuring Direct Investment: Critical Intel for Global Strategies
A blog from BEA Director Vipin Arora
During the 1920s, Americans began investing more abroad than other countries were investing in the United States. This marked an important shift in U.S. foreign investment, and reversed the pattern seen before World War I. Around the same time, BEA began producing direct investment statistics—both U.S. direct investment abroad, or USDIA, and foreign direct investment in the United States, or…
Economic Release Schedule Update
SUITLAND, Md. – The following update to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule is currently available:
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, September 2025, will be will be released on Dec. 11 at 8:30 a.m. These data were originally scheduled for release on Nov. 4.
Economic Release Schedule Updates
SUITLAND, Md. – The following updates to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule are currently available:
Gross Domestic Product by County and Personal Income by County, 2024 will be released on Feb. 5, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. These data were originally scheduled for release on Dec. 3.
Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by State and Real Personal Income by State and Metropolitan Area, 2024 will be…
Economic Release Schedule Updates
SUITLAND, Md. – The following updates to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule are currently available:
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Initial Estimate) and Corporate Profits (Preliminary) will be released on Dec. 23 at 8:30 a.m. This report replaces what would have been Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Second Estimate) and Corporate Profits (Preliminary) originally scheduled for release on Nov. 26.…
Economic Release Schedule Updates
SUITLAND, Md. – The following updates to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule are currently available:
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Advance Estimate) is cancelled. These data were originally scheduled for release on Oct. 30.
Personal Income and Outlays, September 2025, will be released on Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. These data were originally scheduled for release on Oct. 31.
Economic Release Schedule Updates: GDP and Personal Income and Outlays
SUITLAND, Md. - The following updates to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule are currently available:
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Second Estimate) and Corporate Profits (Preliminary) will be rescheduled. These data were originally scheduled for release on Nov. 26.
Personal Income and Outlays, October 2025, will be rescheduled. These data were originally scheduled for release on Nov. 26…
Economic Release Schedule Update
SUITLAND, Md. – The following update to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule is currently available:
Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises, 2023, will be released Dec. 5 at 8:30 a.m. These data were originally scheduled for release on Nov. 21.
BEA’s economic release schedule will continue to be updated as information becomes available.
Economic Release Schedule Updates
SUITLAND, Md. - The following updates to BEA’s post-shutdown economic release schedule are currently available:
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, August 2025, will be released Nov. 19 at 8:30 a.m. These data were originally scheduled for release on Oct. 7.
Services Supplied Through Affiliates, 2023, will be released Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. These data were originally scheduled for release on Oct. 7.
BEA’s economic…
BEA Developing Updated Economic Release Schedule
SUITLAND, Md. – The Bureau of Economic Analysis is working to update its schedule of economic releases, which was affected by the government shutdown.
BEA is consulting with the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other data suppliers to determine the availability of data used to produce our economic indicators. We will publish updated release dates as soon as they are available. Check our website for this…