The U.S. economy likely grew at its slowest pace in 1-1/2 years in the fourth quarter as businesses throttled back on inventory investment and consumer spending cooled a bit, but the pace was probably enough to have kept a recession at bay in 2023. The Commerce Department's advance fourth-quarter gross domestic product report on Thursday, which is also expected to show inflation moderating last quarter, will reinforce expectations that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates some time in the first half of this year. "We are expecting growth to come in right in the sweet spot for the Fed," said Scott Anderson, chief U.S. economist at BMO Capital Markets in San Francisco.
U.S. real gross domestic product rose 2.5% for 2023. It was up at an annual rate of 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to a Thursday report from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
UK online retailers have increased their spending on advertising, inventory and software in Q2 2023 driven by a 15 per cent YoY increase in inventory investment.
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