Is Economic Growth Buoyant or a Blip? Here’s How to Invest Either Way

FILE -- Wando Terminal, where containers are loaded and unloaded off of container ships, in Charleston, S.C., July 16, 2018. The Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product grew at a 4.1 percent rate in the second quarter of the year, but when it comes to how the data could impact investors, two opposite interpretations emerge. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)