Positive macro trends, technical indicators, and skeptical sentiment point to a continued stock market uptrend. Click here to ...

A better-than-expected jobs report and positive talk from investors signals the economy might be heading in the right ...

The Japanese economy shrank less than initially estimated in the first quarter but remains at risk of technical recession, which could delay the Bank of Japan's timeline for raising interest rates.

The Japanese economy shrank less than initially estimated in the first quarter but remains at risk of technical recession, ...

TOKYO--Revised data confirmed that Japan's economy shrank in the first quarter, solidifying the risk of a technical recession. Real gross domestic product contracted 0.2% on an annualized basis in the ...

For normal people, the prospect of a recession is secondary to questions over personal finance. For most families, the state ...

The committee looks at: But those indicators can get into the weeds and become very technical. An unofficial definition of a recession many experts use as a rule of thumb is when the gross national ...

The commonly used definition of a technical recession is consecutive quarter-over-quarter contractions in real GDP.

There are all kinds of people online spotting informal recession indicators. Planet Money takes some of those to see how they compare to the indicators economists watch. A quick spin around social ...

One of the main drivers of today’s recession fears is President Trump’s tariff policy — especially the introduction of taxes on goods imported into the United States. Tariffs have become such a major ...

That’s thanks to older Americans, who are helping to keep the economy from falling into recession. They are less affected by labor market uncertainty, less likely to be struggling in the housing ...