{"id":150625,"date":"2026-04-30T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150625"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:50:09","slug":"us-economy-grows-2-in-january-march-iran-war-clouds-outlookunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150625","title":{"rendered":"US economy grows 2% in January\u2013March; Iran war clouds outlookUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2 per cent pace from January through March after recovering from last fall\u2019s 43-day federal government shutdown. But the outlook is clouded by the Iran war.<br \/>\nThe Commerce Department reported on Thursday that gross domestic product \u2013 the nation\u2019s output of goods and services \u2013 rebounded from a lacklustre 0.5 per cent expansion the last three months of 2025. The federal government\u2019s spending and investment grew at a 9.3 per cent&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3352072\/us-economy-grows-2-january-march-iran-war-clouds-outlook?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2 per cent pace from January through March&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}