And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

At least not yet. Gross domestic product, the official scorecard of the economy, shrank at a 0.3% clip in the first quarter. The rate of inflation also rose sharply in the three months running ...

But then they spent the rest of the day slowly climbing back into positive territory as investors came to realize that the negative GDP number was a function of a rare statistical quirk.

Some of the underlying figures were more encouraging than the GDP dip. Such reports are often amended upward as more data is processed. And although the US economy has been extraordinarily ...

"GDP is backward-looking but there was some good ... the contraction was largely a function of economic activity being pulled forward as importers, businesses and consumers rushed to get ahead ...

Real gross domestic product was down 0.3%, a minor contraction but a large step down from the prior quarter’s GDP growth rate of 2.4%. The negative impact of the tariffs, in particular ...

The nation's gross domestic product — the total value of products and services — shrank at a 0.3% annual rate, down from growth of 2.4% in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce ...

The economy, as a measure of GDP, shrank in part because of a rise in imports as companies stockpiled goods to avoid Trump’s tariffs. This marks the worst quarter for the U.S. economy since 2022 ...

GDP measures all final goods/services produced in a defined area, adjusted for inflation to show real growth. GDP growth rates, especially real GDP annually, are key indicators of economic ...

The report put further pressure on crude already reeling from the 0.3% U.S. 1Q GDP contraction, he says. The EIA's report of a 2.7 million barrel drawdown in crude stocks is overshadowed by ...

The liberal media and their pals on Wall Street are talking about recession, because GDP in the first quarter of 2025 was scored with a slight decline of three-tenths of one percent. And those ...

Major US indexes dropped Wednesday amid negative GDP, inflation, and labor readings. The data suggests the US economy is struggling amid policy shifts from the Trump administration. "The economy ...