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Downtown New York Corporate profits unexpectedly fell in the first three months of the year
US growth slowed in the first three months of 2011 to an annualised rate of 1.8%, which is a 0.4% quarterly rise, the Commerce Department has confirmed.
This compares with an annual growth rate of 3.1% in the previous quarter.
US GDP is expressed as an annualised rate, or annual pace, which shows what the three months' economic activity would mean if it carried on for a year.
The slowdown was blamed on corporate profits unexpectedly contracting in for the first time in more than two years.

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