Although the Department of Labor isn’t publishing claims data during the shutdown, economists estimate, based on available state data, that the current claims level reflects a continued low firing ...

Unless the red flags signaling a recession become more pronounced, it probably won’t be clear whether the United States is in a recession until July. A recession requires at least two quarters of ...

Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators! From the more practical (like sales for lipstick going up and men's ...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they think a recession is coming, according to a new survey from LendingTree. In the survey, conducted in April, 47 percent of respondents say they think a recession ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is warning that a recession remains a real possibility as financial markets continue to absorb the ripple effects of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariff policies.

Small companies, which employ more than 40 percent of the nation’s workforce, tend to experience financial shocks more acutely than their corporate peers.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about investing, markets and Berkshire Hathaway. Stocks and the 10-year US Treasury yield rose after the solid monthly ...

Enough trouble spots emerged in the U.S. economy to coax the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates last week — but it turns out the news isn’t all that bad. A bevy of recent reports also show ...

Democratic strategist James Carville on Wednesday predicted the country will “probably” enter a recession, regardless of whether the Republican tax and spending bill passes through Congress. In an ...

Thanks to Gen Z’s new favorite meme, everything is a recession indicator these days. When we asked members of the SheKnows Teen Council for their examples in the video above, we got everything from ...

Echoing promotional tactics employed during the Great Recession from 2007-2009, a number of companies have brought back recession-focused deals and combos designed to entice cash-strapped Americans to ...