After US GDP (gross domestic product) contracted by 0.3% in 2025's first quarter, shrinking more than expected, many Americans are left wondering what exactly defines a recession. Yahoo Finance senior ...

Who Decides When We're in a Recession? Recession is a scary word. Nobody likes to talk about recessions during good economic times because they don't want to jinx a good thing, and nobody wants to be ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By some early estimates, the U.S. economy, as measured by gross domestic product, may have shrunk in the three months from April through June. Add that to the decline from ...

The headline numbers say the United States is still growing, yet daily life feels like a grind of higher prices, fragile jobs ...

Here’s a set of definitions for common and emerging economic and fiscal terms often seen bandied about in news reports.

The terms stoke outsized panic in some cases and insufficient caution in others. Lately, the stock market has taken a thrashing. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 have each fallen for seven consecutive weeks.

[Asia Economy New York=Special Correspondent Joselgina] 'Recession or not.' As the announcement of the U.S. second-quarter economic growth rate approaches, the so-called 'technical recession' debate ...

In a recent MarketWatch report, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said 22 of America’s 50 states — as well as the District of Columbia — are already in a recession, and if certain ...

Ambition is slowing ahead of 2026. Employees are selective about stretch and growth feels uneven. Leaders must define ...

The Bank of England Governor said the recession the UK entered in the last two quarters of 2023 was ‘the weakest by a long way’ since the 1970s. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has said that ...

Canadians will gain a better understanding of the country’s financial health later this week with the release of economic ...

The Irish economy shrank in the first three months of the year, pushing the country back into recession, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office. Gross domestic product, the widest ...