U.S. economy's 3rd quarter growth bigger than expected, new GDP numbers show Shrugging off higher interest rates, America's consumers spent enough to help drive the economy to a brisk 5.2% annual ...

The U.S. economy grew substantially faster in the final months of 2023 than forecasters had expected. For all of last year, the economy grew 3.1% — defying forecasts of a likely recession.

The US economy shrank slightly less in the beginning of the year than previously reported, new data shows, but it was still the first quarterly decline since 2022, in a sign of how President ...

The state of the economy is generally strong and inflation is slowing down, but still remains elevated. The Federal Reserve is looking at key economic indicators to signal it’s time to cut rates.

The economy's good. The economy's bad. It depends on who you ask — and increasingly which party is in the White House when you ask. It was yet another strong jobs report Friday, exceeding ...

Update: Donald Trump has been inaugurated the 47th US president. More here.The U.S. economy and job market are expected to cool in 2025 but still turn in another year of solid growth as inflation ...

The economy added a stronger-than-expected 147,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% from 4.2%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday.

To further compare how consumer sentiment has changed from the pre-pandemic to post-pandemic data, we re-fitted the pre-pandemic model but trained it on post-pandemic data (i.e., used the same ...

Even so, there are cracks emerging that point to increasing economic stress among a portion of U.S. households, even as the economy, by most measures, remains strong. Here are three charts that ...

Editor’s note (August 2nd 2025): This story has been updated with the latest economic data and analysis. AMERICA’S REMARKABLE run of economic growth may be slowing. Recent data point to weaker ...

Unemployment is near record lows. Job creation is robust. The economy is growing, driven by healthy consumer spending. And the stock market has hit record highs. Yet surveys show that Americans ...