Economic growth refers to the increase in goods and services production over set periods, often measured by GDP or GNP, ...

Neither business leaders nor consumers needed to hear Wednesday’s dismal news that the U.S. economy shrank 0.3 percent during the first quarter of 2025 to voice their concerns about the way things are ...

Nearly half of the country is now flashing recessionary warning lights, with twenty-three states already meeting a common rule-of-thumb definition of contraction and several others hovering just above ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's Gross Domestic Product shrank 0.1% in May on a monthly basis as expected but is likely to regain the lost ground in June as some sectors rebound, data showed on Thursday. An ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business activity contracted for a fifth straight month in June, but the pace of decline eased, supporting views that the recession caused by the COVID-19 crisis was ...

The ISM manufacturing PMI came in at 48.7 in April, indicating a contraction in U.S. manufacturing for a second straight month. Demand and output weakened while input strengthened further, conditions ...

OTTAWA--Tariffs and trade worries deflated Canada's economy in the second quarter, though an uptick in activity in June suggests the country hasn't been squeezed as badly as initially feared despite ...

THE Philippine economy grew slightly slower than initially reported in the third quarter of 2025, after the Philippine ...

Ireland’s factory output fell sharply in June as exports to the U.S. halved, helping to push the economy into contraction after a first-quarter boom. The country’s Central Statistics Office on Friday ...

0200 GMT - Japan's economy is poised for a firm rebound from its 3Q contraction, Capital Economics says in a note. Senior APAC economist Abhijit Surya notes that while industrial production fell on ...