When running a business, understanding business cycles is essential to success. Sometimes referred to as a trade or economic cycle, a business cycle is the measured expansion and contraction of ...

Making sense of the economy requires more than just tracking the latest data—it demands a framework for connecting the dots. The good news is that the economy doesn’t move in random spurts ...

Because of the way GDP is calculated, increases in imports relative to exports put a drag on the economy. But at the same time, the uptick in imports fed right into a huge increase in business ...

For the quarter, the BEA calculated that inventory gains added 2.3 percentage points to GDP growth. The change in inventories was $140.1 billion in the first quarter, compared with $8.9 billion in ...

The US economy shrank at a 0.3 percent annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business. First-quarter growth was ...

The average forecast from 15 local and international analysts showed Argentina's gross domestic product (GDP) expanding 1.7% in the last three months of 2024. Sign up here. "It's the first ...