The US economy shrank by an annualised 0.7% between April and June this year, not by 1% as previous estimates from the Commerce Department had said.
The gross domestic product (GDP) figure is dwarfed by the 6.4% drop in the previous three months and the 5.4% figure for the final quarter of 2008.
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