Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. Wooden blocks with the word GDP and up and down arrows. An ...

GDP does not need to be redefined for the AI age. The harder measurement problem is how price indexes account for rapidly changing quality and falling prices.

The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter, but the underlying data show trends under the hood that should dampen recession fears. “Real GDP slipped in the first quarter, and while a decline during ...

The International Monetary Fund has just warned of slowing global economic growth in its latest analysis. Similar to this finding, a newly issued report reveals the world’s wealthiest countries by ...

This paper describes the recent work to strengthen the nowcasting capacity at the Central Bank of Samoa (CBS). It compiles available high-frequency datasets such as tourism receipts, agriculture ...

The U.S. economy saw growth in newly released second quarter data after a first quarter report showed the economy in decline as consumers and businesses continue to respond to Trump’s global trade war ...

The headline GDP number conceals economic momentum by blending leading and lagging sectors. Read how certain economic metrics ...

Real GDP rose at a 1.6% annual rate in Q1, falling short of the 2.0% forecast but marking an acceleration from the 0.5% final estimate seen in Q4 of last year. The current GDP is 12.8% below the ...

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that it's been a "very strong" holiday season for the economy and predicted that the U.S. would end the year at 3% real GDP. Bessent said American consumers' ...

ISLAMABAD, June 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan's annual economic survey projected real GDP growth at 3.7% for the fiscal year ending ...

The UAE's real GDP grew 6.2% in 2025 ​from a year earlier to ‌1.9 trillion AED ($517.34 billion), with non-oil GDP rising 6.8% to 1.5 trillion ​AED ($408.43 billion), the state ​news agency said on ...