The expanded from July through September after shrinking for the first half of the year, spurring fears of a recession -- but economists warn that the country is not out of the woods yet.Real gross domestic product, a measure of all economic output in the country, increased 2.6 percent in the third quarter after two straight quarterly declines, the Labor Department said on Thursday.The upswing was mostly due to a rebound in the same technical factors that drove the first-half decline, leading one economist to observe that the economy is 'treading water.'
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