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This is the first 1,000 characters of 13298 words (53.19 pages) in the essay titled Economic and Financial Developments in 2000 ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN 2000The expansion of U.S. economic activity maintained considerable momentum through the early months of 2000 despite the firming in credit markets that has occurred over the past year. Only recently has the pace of real activity shown signs of having moderated from the extremely rapid rate of increase that prevailed during the second half of 1999 and the first quarter of 2000. Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 5-1/2 percent in the first quarter of 2000. Private domestic final sales, which had accelerated in the second half of 1999, were particularly robust, rising at an annual rate of almost 10 percent in the first quarter. Underlying that surge in domestic spending were many of the same factors that had contributed to the considerable strength of outlays in the second half of 1999. The ongoing influence of substantial increases in real income and wealth continued to fuel consumer spending, and business investment, which continues to be undergirded by the desire to take advantage of new, cost-saving technologies, was further buoyed by an acceleration in sales and profits late last year. Export demand posted a solid gain during the first quarter while imports rose even more rapidly to meet booming domestic demand. The available data, on balance, point to another solid increase in real GDP in the second quarter, although they suggest that private household and business fixed investment spending likely slowed noticeably from the e... |
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Keywords: first quarter, real gdp, second half, financial developments, pace, noticeably, labor utilization, utilization rate, substantial increases, inflation rates, private household, export demand, retail energy, balance point, domestic spending, credit markets, shown signs, income and wealth, domestic demand, rapid rate