The downgrade meant that the UK grew at the weakest pace since the end of 2012 over the quarter.
Worker productivity fell at a 1.9 percent annual rate, the weakest pace since the fourth quarter of 2008, the Labor Department reported.
The setback stems from a 17percentt drop in the building of single-family houses, which posted the weakest pace since May 2017.
Global economic growth will reach 0.5percentthis yearar, the weakest pace since World War II, the monetary fund said.
The survey's gauge of future business, new orders, slowed in August to the weakest pace this year.
Inventories, drained to record lows earlier this year, grew as consumer spending slowed during the April-June quarter to the weakest pace since the 2001 recession.
The data suggests Beijing's efforts to halt a slowdown are working, but its economy is still growing at the weakest pace since 2009.
France's economy expanded at the weakest pace in more than four years during the second quarter of this year as the faltering in world growth weighed on exports.
At the same time, Americans slowed their spending in September to the weakest pace in three months and their incomes fell by the largest amount in 14 months.
So the price of existing homes that sold during the month of September rose – but at the weakest pace in five months.
