GDP
GDP is the total value of goods and services an economy produces. The BEA publishes US GDP quarterly, first as an advance estimate and then two revisions, adding the whole economy into one number. It looks backward, so markets trade the nowcasts and surveys that come first; growth and the cycle is a lecture still to be shot.
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