{
  "id": 4993476,
  "title": "Australia’s economy narrowly avoids recession",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/australias-economy-narrowly-avoids-recession",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-02T01:52:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/09/australias-economy-narrowly-avoids-recession/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Various bank economists predicted that the economy would slide back into a per capita recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GDP per capita, ahead of Wednesday’s Q2 2026 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). However, the result was slightly stronger than expected, with Australia’s real GDP The post Australia’s economy narrowly…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}