On Friday, the Labor Department is expected to release another blast of bad news when it estimates the pace of job losses in April.
It also misstated the number of turbines to be built in a project off the British coast and the name of a group that estimated the pace of construction.
The Office for National Statistics upgraded its initial 0.6% estimate, putting the pace of growth at 0.7%, its strongest since the third quarter of last year when the economy received a temporary fillip from the Olympics.
A revised estimate put the pace of growth at 3.8% at an annual rate, up from the 2.6% initially reported.Health consciousSuntory, a Japanese company that sells a range of alcoholic and soft drinks, agreed to buy the Lucozade energy-drink and Ribena fruit-juice brands from GlaxoSmithKline, a British drugs company, for £1.35 billion ($2.1 billion).
This figure was determined, however, before the arrival of more pessimistic estimates on the pace of global warming.
This week, Goldman Sachs economists estimated that the pace of money leaving China may have accelerated to "possibly between $150 billion and $200 billion" since the currency devalued, on August 11th, and state-backed economists (who tend not to speak without evidence to support their claims) are predicting that more is yet to come.
Tourism officials estimate that this year, the pace of meetings, conventions and exhibitions is about even with previous years'.
According to the latest cohort estimates as well as the latest period estimates of 5-year survival, the pace of improvement, however, seems to have levelled off in recent years.
The Tories welcomed the figures, which show that GDP growth for the fourth quarter of 2014 was revised to 0.6%, up from a previous estimate of 0.5% and matching the pace of expansion in the third quarter.
The gross domestic product, a measure of the output of goods and services, rose at an annual pace of 1.3percentt in the first quarter, slower than an early estimate of 2percentt but up from the pace of 1percentt in the previous quarter, the Commerce Department reported.
