A Wall Street axiom states that the stock markets lead the economy by about six months. While not a perfect predictor, the stock market reacts to investor expectations about future corporate earnings, ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has issued a stark warning that the United States is "very close to a recession" as ...

However, more recent data "suggests that the length of recessions are getting shorter now compared to historical ones," says Custovic. The average length of an economic contraction in the US ...

Recessions seem to occur every decade or so in modern economies, and they seem to regularly follow periods of strong economic growth. This pattern recurs with striking consistency, but is it ...

A recession is a substantial, broad-based decline reflected in numerous indicators of economic performance and typically lasting longer than a few months. By their nature, recessions have far ...

Consumers and businesses are increasingly worried. What everyone from Wall Street investors to economists to the Federal ...