If customers buy less than expected, inventories unexpectedly build up and unintended inventory investment turns out to have been positive.
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The change from the agency's original estimate of a 5 . 6 percent growth rate reflected stronger exports and inventory investment.
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But the government said inventory investment still increased more rapidly than previously estimated, largely due to higher livestock build-up on farms.
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"I think that the GDP's composition will shift in the fourth quarter and show stronger final sales and less inventory investment.
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However, both the upward impetus from the swing in inventory investment and the growth in final demand appear to have moderated.
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Still, inventory investment could slow later in the year, could restrain GDP growth, as businesses empty their warehouses of goods, analysts said.
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If these are indeed equal for a particular time period, there is no unintended inventory investment and there is goods market equilibrium.
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This may come as a surprise to producers, who initially experience negative inventory investment as their sales have unexpectedly exceeded their production.
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This is reflected in the presence of positive or negative unintended inventory investment . it can be shown by the graph below.
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"Inventory investment is retarding the overall pace of the economy, " she said, but that inventory adjustment process may be near completion.
