Changes

=GDP= =GDP=='''Real gross domestic product''' - ===Real GDP, the value of the goods and services produced by the nation’s economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production, adjusted for price changes -- , increased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.0 percent.

==='''The price index for gross domestic purchases'''=== The price index for GDP, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents, increased 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 1.3 percent in the third. Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 0.9 percent, compared with an increase of 1.3 percent. ==='''Current-dollar GDP''' === Current-dollar GDP, the market value of the goods and services produced by the nation’s economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production, increased 1.5 percent, or $68.1 billion, in the fourth quarter to a level of $18,128.2 billion. In the third quarter, current-dollar GDP increased 3.3 percent, or $146.5 billion. ===Disposition of personal income=== *Current-dollar personal income increased $137.1 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of $190.8 billion in the third. The deceleration in personal income primarily reflected a downturn in personal interest income and decelerations in wages and salaries and in farm proprietors’ income. *Personal current taxes increased $25.8 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of $22.3 billion in the third. *Disposable personal income increased $111.3 billion, or 3.3 percent, in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of $168.5 billion, or 5.1 percent, in the third. Real disposable personal income increased 3.2 percent, compared with an increase of 3.8 percent. *Personal outlays increased $72.6 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of $131.7 billion in the third. *Personal saving -- disposable personal income less personal outlays -- was $739.3 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $700.6 billion in the third.

'''Current-dollar GDP''' -- the market value *The personal saving rate, personal saving as a percentage of the goods and services produced by the nation’s economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production -- increased 1disposable personal income,was 5.5 4 percent, or $68.1 billion, in the fourth quarter to a level of $18,128compared with 5.2 billion. In percent in the third quarter, current-dollar GDP increased 3.3 percent, or $146.5 billion.