The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:
Personal income increased $45.0 billion (0.2 percent at a monthly rate) in July.
Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes— increased $7.3 billion (less than 0.1 percent).
Personal outlays—the sum of personal consumption expenditures (PCE), personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $153.8 billion (0.8 percent)
and consumer spending increased $144.6 billion (0.8 percent).
Personal saving was $705.6 billion and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 3.5 percent in July.
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