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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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