Rachel Reeves blamed “increased global uncertainty” as the budget watchdog slashed its forecast for economic growth ... of this year - as shown in the graph below. Government borrowing ...

The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 228,000 jobs in March, a significant increase from February’s revised gains of 117,000, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday.

In the past economists were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. "The graph 'Inequality cancels benefits of growth' presents how inequality ...

A major ad industry forecaster has downgraded its U.S. growth projection for 2025 because of a lack of economic visibility and a decline in consumer confidence that it said could be a drag on ...

President Trump just unveiled sweeping tariffs that will reverberate through the US economy, sending inflation higher and weakening economic growth.

"There's no one agreed-upon definition of a recession, but the most commonly used metric is two back-to-back periods of negative economic growth," said CBS MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady.

Growth outlooks in the United States and several other countries are projected to slow this year and next, as uncertainty on trade and economic policy takes a toll. By Patricia Cohen Reporting ...

Chinese markets often don’t follow global trends, but they also tumbled. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 13.2% to 19,828.30, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 7.3% to 3,096.58. In Taiwan, the ...

When the treasury bond yield curve inverts (and remains inverted for some time), the likelihood of the economy slipping into recession is high. A yield curve is a graph on which bonds are ...