Key Takeaways The U.S. economy is likely to avoid a recession in the second half of the year, forecasters said in their mid-year outlooks.President Donald Trump has walked back some of his most ...

For generations, people have looked for small, informal signs that a recession is coming or already here. This phenomenon recently exploded on social media, often in joke form.

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Key characteristics of a recession include slides in gross domestic product growth, rising unemployment, decreased consumer spending and a fall in industrial production.

There's still a 25% chance the US could enter a recession sometime in the next 12 months, Apollo's chief economist says.

Mark Zandi laid out why he thinks the US economy is on the brink of a recession. For clues about when a downturn could hit, look to the labor market.

Recession? What recession? The US economy bucked nonstop doom-and-gloom by economists — including some at Wall Street’s biggest banks — and reported stronger-than-expected growth in the ...

A top economist cited President Donald Trump's tariffs and immigration policy as the primary reasons he feels the U.S. is nearing a recession. The post Moody’s Analyst Declares US ‘On the ...

The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

A recession has been predicted for the past several years, but the sky has not fallen (yet). Even with a slew of positive economic news, I have ongoing fears about the current state of the stock ...

Economists say a recession is an unlikely in the second half of 2025, but not out of the question if President Donald Trump's tariffs hit harder than expected or war engulfs the Middle East.