US GDP Growth Slowed To 0.5%, Fed's Favorite Inflation Hit 3% Before Crude Shock

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The U.S. economy ended 2025 barely moving while Americans opened their wallets anyway — and Thursday’s data dump exposed just how wide that gap has become. Real gross domestic product — the broadest ...

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rate of just 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s third and final estimate released Thursday. \nThat’s a sharp deceleration from the 4.4% pace recorded in the third quarter and a downward revision of 0.2 percentage points from the prior estimate, primarily due to weaker investment data.\nThe GDP figure carries an asterisk: the October–November 2025 government shutdown — which the BEA estimates subtracted roughly 1.0 percentage point from growth on its own — significantly distorted the quarter. \nStrip that out and the picture looks less dire. But the underlying trend is still a marked step-down from the prior quarter’s momentum.\nThe personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index — the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge — rose 2.8% year over year in February, unchanged from January. \nCore PCE, which excludes food and energy, came in at 3.0% annually, edging down from 3.1% and hitting consensus. \nOn a monthly basis, core PCE rose 0.4%, matching expectations. Critically, this is all pre-war data. \nFebruary’s figures were locked in before the Iran conflict sent crude oil above $100 a barrel and triggered a sharp repricing of inflation expectations across markets. \nThe Fed’s preferred gauge was already running 1 percentage point above the 2% target — before the energy shock landed.\nThursday’s PCE print is therefore less a verdict on where inflation stands today than a baseline from which to measure the damage. \nThe more current read arrives Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index for March. \nConsensus expects headline CPI to surge to 3.3% year over year — up sharply from February’s 2.4% — with core CPI seen at 2.7%, versus 2.5% prior. \nOn a monthly basis, headline inflation is forecast to jump 0.9%, one of the largest single-month moves in years.\nFebruary’s personal income and outlays data revealed the tension at the heart of the U.S. consumer picture. \nPersonal income fell 0.1% on the month — below the 0.3% consensus and a sharp reversal from January’s 0.4% gain. The drop was led by declines in personal dividend income and transfer receipts.\nYet spending surged 0.5%, exactly in line with estimates. \nConsumers spent more while earning less — drawing down savings. The personal saving rate fell to 4.0%.\nSpeaking on Bloomberg TV after the release, Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP said: “It’s hard to pull a current signal from the data that we’ve seen, but it’s meaningful that fourth quarter GDP growth was lower than we thought, and this is before the ramp-up in oil prices.”\nRichardson’s framing lands with precision. A consumer who was already “vulnerable and fragile” in the fourth quarter — before the recent spike in energy costs driven by Middle East tensions — faces a compounding pressure test going forward. \nHigher fuel costs act as a stealth tax, shrinking the purchasing power that spending data currently shows holding up.\nThe labor market adds another layer of complexity. 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