Sugar rush propels US economic growth to four-year high

Next summer the US economic expansion that began in 2009 will become the longest in the country’s history – provided a recession doesn’t strike in the meantime.

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A surge in trade boosted second-quarter US GDP
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Next summer the US economic expansion that began in 2009 will become the longest in the country's history provided a recession doesn't strike in the meantime. The equity market is also marching towards new milestones. The average bull market in US market history has tended to last eight years, whereas the current one has endured for almost a decade.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

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