Weak Economic Growth

Economic growth still weak

By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney May 26, 2011: 9:07 AM ET

 source cnn

 U.S. economic growth remained disappointingly weak the first three months of the year, the government reported Thursday.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic health, grew at an annual rate of 1.8% in the first quarter, according to the Commerce Department. That is unchanged from the original reading released a month ago, and well below the 3.1% pace of economic growth in the final three months of 2010.

Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had predicted that GDP would be revised up to 2% growth in Thursday's report. (World's fastest growing economies).