(MENAFN- AFP) The US economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first quarter of this year, the Commerce Department said Friday in a revised GDP estimate.
The downturn was due in part to the impact on trade of the three-month West Coast ports slowdown, as well as a lower level of private inventory investment than previously estimated.
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