The firm says geopolitical turmoil has pushed commodity prices higher, and global interest-rate cuts have been more ...

While media outlets and financial pundits are always quick to predict an upcoming recession, they’re only wrong part of the time. The fact is, the United States has endured a recession every 6.5 ...

If this is the Fed’s coming move – cutting its policy rate substantially and quickly – it suggests a panicky policy; it betrays both a fearfulness and an eagerness to fight a recession which ...

Could a recession be the October surprise that changes the election outlook? It would be bad news for Kamala Harris. The economy, as always, is the top issue for voters, and a further jump in ...

In the early 1980s, the Fed was hardly trying to avoid a recession when it raised rates to nearly 20% to fight double-digit ...

When that happens, it historically has meant a recession is looming. So you’d think that investors and economists would have celebrated last week when that warning sign stopped flashing.

By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is not trying to engineer a recession to stop inflation but is fully committed to bringing prices under control even if doing ...

The report highlighted the resilience of an economy that has consistently defied a long-predicted recession. Ever since the Fed began ratcheting up its benchmark interest rate in early 2022 to ...

The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates by a half a percent in September marks a turning point in the most ...

However, when multiple indicators align, it can signal a recession in the agricultural sector. According to analysts and economists, pay particular attention to the following: Declining farm income.

Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut comes as the unemployment rate is signaling a recession may be near—or even under way. If so ...

Many economists have noted that high inflation was a global phenomenon after the pandemic recession, caused largely by shortages of parts and labor, and was just as severe overseas as it was in ...