From the Joint Economic Committee:

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its advance estimate of growth in the inflation-adjusted (“real”) gross domestic product (GDP) for the 4th quarter of 2009 (at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm).
According to the advance estimate, annualized GDP growth in the 4th quarter was 5.7%, compared to 2.2% in the 3rd quarter and -0.7% in the 2nd quarter. The BEA will release its revised, second* estimate for 4th quarter GDP growth on February 26th.
Highlights:
Ø The increase in real GDP in the 4th quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from private inventory investment, exports, and personal consumption expenditures. Imports, which are a subtraction from GDP, increased.
Ø The acceleration in real GDP in the 4th quarter came from growth in the pace of inventory investment, a deceleration in imports, and an upturn in nonresidential fixed investment. These accelerations were partly offset by decelerations in federal government spending and in personal consumption expenditures.