Economic contractions, troughs, expansions and peaks are unpredictable phases of economic activity referred to as economic business cycles. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total market ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Robert Kelly is managing director of ...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis last week released its “advance estimate” of U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2025. GDP measures the total market value of all ...

The U.S. economy emerged from the pandemic even more quickly than previously reported, revised data from the federal government shows. The Commerce Department on Thursday released updated estimates of ...

Louisiana posted growth of 3.8% in real gross domestic product during first quarter, compared to the previous quarter - which means the state outpaced the national average of 3.1% in GDP growth. The ...