The economy rolled on in the third quarter of 2017, growing by 3%, despite the hurricanes that battered the United States during the quarter.

Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the second quarter of 2017, according to the "advance" estimate released by the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.2 percent (revised).

The U.S. economy grew 3.9 percent at the annual rate in the third quarter, according to revised real GDP data released in late November, 2014.