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# GDP
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/gdp
Last modified: 2026-10-17

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](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-stock-market-explained). It looks backward, so markets trade the nowcasts and surveys that come first; [growth and the cycle](https://mochatrade.com/learn) is a lecture still to be shot.

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