U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. The nation's gross domestic ...

The U.S. economy was in worse shape in the weeks before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran than earlier government estimates had suggested.

More Americans believe the economy and stock market will get better within six months instead of decline, according to a new survey. In the Gallup poll, 50 percent of respondents said the stock market ...

The U.S. economy slowed in the final months of last year, but it continued to expand, thanks to robust consumer spending and business investment in artificial intelligence. A report from the Commerce ...

Hyperbole aside, he’s right: America’s economy is strong. But Trump is missing the point. Affordability, not economic strength, drives voters to the polls. Most Americans don’t care a lick about GDP, ...

From markets to spending to debt, usually reliable indicators that forecast where the economy is headed are proving deeply fallible. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen is the global economics ...

The US economy grew at a much slower pace in the final months of 2025 as the historic government shutdown weighed on economic activity, ending a year that saw the weakest growth since the pandemic.

The economy is growing. Unemployment is low. Wages, for most people, are rising faster than prices. Stocks are rising. Yet the public keeps giving the economy a thumbs-way-down. Gallup finds that only ...

In April 2025, as U.S. stock markets were melting down in reaction to Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day edicts, the president’s top adviser on tariffs, Peter Navarro, proclaimed that not only ...

President Donald Trump made a passionate defense of the US economy during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. “Inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is ...