Customers shop
Customers shop on July 12, 2023, in New York City.
  • Real gross domestic product, or real GDP, grew at an annualized rate of 2.4%.
  • That advance estimate for the second quarter beat the 1.8% increase expected.
  • The estimate is above the 2.0% annualized rate in the first quarter.

The US economy was seeing growth surge in the second quarter of 2023, according to new data out Thursday morning.