Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased 2.8 percent at an annual rate in the third quarter of 2009, according to the "second" estimates of the national income and product accounts.

In the second quarter, real GDP decreased 0.7 percent.

The upturn in real GDP primarily reflected upturns in consumer spending, inventory investment, exports and residential fixed investment and a smaller decrease in nonresidential fixed investment. In contrast, imports turned up, state and local government spending turned down, and federal government spending decelerated.

Prices of goods and services purchased by U.S. residents increased 1.4 percent in the third quarter. Real disposable personal income decreased 1.5 percent in the third quarter.

You can read the full report with statistics in surprisingly understandable format to support it at this Web site, published by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.