An initial reading last week stunned investors with a 0.1% contraction in the economy.
The Commerce Department's initial reading of U.S. second-quarter gross domestic product Friday was mostly in line with expectations.
They said the GDP is expected to be revised slightly higher, to 2.2%, from the initial reading of 1.8%.
On Friday, we get the Producer Price Index and the initial reading on consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan.
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On Friday, the final reading of October consumer sentiment indicator slipped slightly from the initial reading, coming in at 82.6.
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At the end of the week, the initial reading on first-quarter GDP was 2.5%, though the market was looking for 3.1%.
The country revised up its gross domestic product figures for the October to December period to show a 0.2% increase in the quarter on annualized terms, compared to last month's initial reading of a 0.4% contraction.
But after an initial reading he said it seemed to have struck a "sensible balance in safeguarding the very important role of academic publishers while finding a way to manage the change to an environment that is more dominated by open access".
"While an investigation report into a remote 440km per hour (270 mph) impact crash and subsequent fire which destroyed much of the evidence is always open to criticism, based on its initial reading of the 75 page report, the ATSB does not accept the coroner's criticisms, " it said in a statement.
The initial June reading of 18, 000 was boosted to 46, 000 while private payroll positions were increased by 157, 000 during July.
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The dollar index is weaker by 0.7% at its lowest in four weeks ahead of initial claims data and an April reading of factory orders.
The pesticide legislation, which will ban the use of certain toxic chemicals on farms, originated back in July 2006, when the European Commission sent an initial legislative proposal to the European Parliament for a first reading.
Though unusually high levels of bearish sentiment have corresponded with market bottoms, there have been 10 periods when an initial rise in bearish sentiment above 50% has been followed by at least a second reading above 50% within a four-week period.
The Commerce Department upped its estimate on second-quarter growth to 1.3% in its third reading on GDP, from 1% a month ago. while the Labor Department said initial jobless claims dropped to 391, 000 last week.
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