Wall Street is cutting its forecasts for the US economy this year, boosting its projections for inflation and unemployment and nudging up the odds of a recession as the impact of the Iran war starts to come into view.

Economists have pulled up their risk assessments of a contraction amid heightened uncertainty over geopolitical risk and a labor market slump.

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Next week's U.S. employment report headlines a fresh batch of economic data for stock investors, who also will closely follow developments in an Iran war that is entering its second month.

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The U.S. economy grew at a slower rate than previously thought in the fourth quarter after the Commerce Department released its first revision of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the latest quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA ...

The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years, even as many households have struggled. The war with Iran is following the same pattern.

The US economy has proven more resilient than many feared, but one Wall Street veteran says that a recession is only being held back by tech. Jim Paulsen, a markets strategist with more than 40 years of experience on Wall Street, argued that most of the ...

The median forecasts in this calendar come from surveys of economists conducted by Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. All statistics in this calendar are in expressed in nominal terms unless labeled "real.

The U.S. economy has shown resilience in the face of President Donald Trump’s policies, but the war with Iran has driven up oil and gas prices and clouded the economic outlook.