An economy is a system of production and consumption activities that determine how resources are allocated among all of its ...

It’s hard to navigate every twist and turn of the $90 trillion global economy. To help you, Bloomberg created this real-time dashboard of key economic indicators from every corner of the world.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest U.S. gross domestic product data on April 30. In the first three months of 2025, it said, GDP contracted by 0.3%. The GDP growth rate captures the ...

Online dating traffic, cardboard box production and movie success offer insights into consumer behavior and economic health. The combined occurrence of informal indicators can highlight broader ...

Understanding the state of the economy can help investors make decisions Reviewed by Robert C. Kelly Fact checked by Michael Rosenston The state of the overall economy can provide insight to investors ...

Alliance for Automotive Innovation CEO John Bozzella proposed replacing the federal gas tax with a weight-based vehicle fee for road infrastructure spending. Average hourly earnings rose just 0.2% in ...

Economists use a variety of tools and data to predict how well or poorly the economy will do in the near-term. Experts can analyze figures like the gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment rates, ...

Equity markets took a hit this week with much of the damage coming on Friday (February 21) with losses accelerating into the close. It appears that traders have suddenly realized that the economy has ...

Some metrics indicate that the underlying health of the economy is good, even as President Donald Trump’s trade wars are setting off alarms in markets, consumers, and economists. Despite the ...

Every day, the market closely watches economic indicators to tell us what may lie ahead. Some of the data comes quarterly, some monthly and some even weekly. Peter C. Earle, a senior economist at the ...