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The nation's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced in the economy, grew at a 2.5% annual rate in the second quarter, an upward revision from an initial estimate of 1.7% reported last month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Economists had forecast a revised second-quarter growth rate of 2.2%.

Corporate profits rose 2.6% in the second quarter from the first, indicating companies should be in a better position to add workers and increase investments in the months ahead.

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