What is a recession? What are the key indicators of a recession? How do government and central banks respond to recessions? What are the causes of recessions? How can individuals and businesses ...

Financial markets experienced dramatic shifts on a striking Monday that left investors uneasy. An abrupt technological stock downturn set off warning signals in key financial indicators. The ...

Every day, the market closely watches economic indicators to tell us what may lie ahead. Some of the data comes quarterly, some monthly and some even weekly. Peter C. Earle, a senior economist at the ...