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.

Despite relatively high interest rates and rising unemployment, the chance of a 2025 recession is estimated to be low. The Federal Reserve’s projections for 2025 call for median economic growth ...

In the aftermath of the crisis, the global economy entered a recession that we can rightly characterize as “great.” Economic activity in the G-7 countries dropped by more than 5 per cent. According to ...

Canada’s in a recession and has been for quite some time, says economist Lars Osberg. Perhaps not a true recession, according to the standard definition that requires two consecutive quarters of ...

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 ...

The household survey, which reports the unemployment rate, is pointing to a recession. First, the unemployment rate did increase from 3.4% to 4.3% in 2024 and this triggered the Sahm Recession ...

(Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi) Canada’s in a recession and has been for quite some time, says economist Lars Osberg. Perhaps not a true recession, according to the standard definition ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is occurring in an incredibly difficult economic context, where the severity of a recession engineered to successfully help lower inflation has increased poverty while further eroding ...

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 ...

I expect the Office for National Statistics will this year confirm that Britain has experienced a recession. That means two consecutive three-month quarters of negative economic growth ...