Aggregate US debt is $101.353T, or 3.45x GDP, indicating a historically high leverage that risks recession. Read why ...

Recessions are the worst for portfolio values, but good times to grow income. Read about two closed-end funds that can ...

Luckily, there are strategies available to limit portfolio losses and even log some gains during a recession. A recession is a significant, widespread, and extended decline in economic activity.

Now is as good a time as any to prepare to take advantage of the next recession instead of letting it take advantage of you. The first law of a recession strategy ought to be: Don't sell in the panic.

After some three years of weaker demand for package deliveries, the “freight recession” that has weighed on companies like United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. could end this year on ...

Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, described the world’s No. 2 economy as being in a recession, if not a depression. Bessent, in further bearish ...

Forget this week's minor decrease in the UK inflation number. The most important European data release was the confirmation from Germany that, during 2024, its economy contracted for the second ...

The fires struck as California’s economy was still recovering from the brief but sharp recession that hit the state five years ago when Newsom ordered shutdowns to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. About ...

A top Bank of England official last night said interest rates may need to be cut as many as six times this year to stave off recession fears as Labour’s jobs tax bites. Alan Taylor, a member of ...

This story is part of WTOP’s ongoing series, Trump Impact, which looks at how the new administration could change the D.C. region. Whatever ultimately comes of the new Department of Government ...

There’s a reason birth rates are an increasingly prominent feature in discourse and policymaking today. Population ageing and decline is one of the most powerful forces in the world, shaping ...

Candace Laing, chief executive of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency and the importance of “being nimble for ...