Fourth-quarter GDP revised up on inventories

(Reuters) - Economists had expected the final fourth-quarter reading of GDP growth to be unrevised at 2.2 percent.

The final figure was up from a 2 percent rate in the third quarter and meant the economy expanded by a solid 3.3 percent during the whole of 2006. It was the third straight year that GDP expanded at a rate over 3 percent, following growth of 3.2 percent in 2005 and 3.9 percent in 2004.


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