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An updated reading showed gross domestic product shrank at a 0.5 percent annual rate in the quarter, weaker than an earlier 0.3 percent estimate, as consumers cut their spending.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde says France's gross domestic product grew by 0.14 percent in the third quarter, avoiding the technical definition of a recession.

German gross domestic product contracted by 0.5 percent in the third quarter, putting Europe’s largest economy in recession for the first time in five years.

The U.S. economy experienced weaknesses in the third quarter, as real gross domestic product fell 0.3 percent.

This and other economic trends are discussed in the third quarter update to the Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business.

The broadest barometer of the nation’s economic health, gross domestic product, shrank at a 0.3 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the government said Thursday.

Gross domestic product increased at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the quarter, the government said. The revised reading was much better than its initial estimate of a 1.9 percent pace.

U.S. organizations lose about 7 percent of their revenues to fraud, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

When compared to the projected U.S. Gross Domestic Product for 2008 -- 7 percent equates to $994 billion.

Gross domestic product in the 15-nation euro area declined 0.2 percent in the April-June period compared with the first quarter, according to reports on Thursday.

First, the not-so-good news, then on to some encouraging revenue numbers for Motorola. Below I’ve condensed today’s big economic news as reported by the Associated Press, with the second quarter gross domestic product numbers coming in less than expected .

. . -- Economic growth clocked in at a 1.9 percent pace in the second quarter. That was better than a 0.9 percent pace logged in the first quarter, but was still considered a subpar performance and fell short of economists' forecasts.

-- Consumers boosted spending at a 1.5 percent growth rate in the second quarter, helped by the...

Pharmaceutical applications in the US market for barrier plastic packaging should continue to generate strong growth over the next five years, as the wider healthcare packaging market carries on expanding above the rate of gross domestic product (GDP), a new report predicts.