Here's what to know. A recession is generally defined as a broad-based, persistent decline in economic activity. The more popular metric is that a recession is two straight quarters of negative ...

Global stocks looked set for their weakest weekly performance since September 2024, while gold hit a record high, as angst ...

Thanks to reporting lags and number revisions, recessions typically aren’t declared until well after they have begun.

Is the US headed for a recession in 2025? Most measures show that the US economy isn't in a recession. Still, the likelihood has risen slightly due to certain negative economic indicators.

Investors are scrambling to make sense of the on-again, off-again nature of Trump’s tariffs, the Fed’s next moves and ...

Traditional indicators often do not identify the start of a recession until well after it has occurred. But a new model ...

The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight. Now, the R-word is seemingly everywhere. Recession fears are rocking the stock market. GDP forecasts ...