The Latest Breaking News from Recession

So far we have not gone into recession – but only because our population has grown and the government has kept spending

The S&P 500 is currently pricier than before the Great Recession and “Black Tuesday” in 1929, according to Robert Shiller's famous metric.

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are down -0.30%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU24) are down -0.46% this morning, extending yesterday’s slump amid worries about a slowing U.S. economy, while investors awaited the latest reading on U.S. job openings.

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The latest national accounts show the Australian economy is struggling. It’s what you would expect after the sharpest series of interest rate rises on record, and is more or less what the Reserve Bank was trying to achieve to bring down inflation.

Tech firms led a plunge across Asian markets Wednesday after a rout on Wall Street fuelled by a collapse in chip titan Nvidia and disappointing data on US factory activity that revived recession fears.

Intel is reconsidering a €30 billion factory while Volkswagen contemplates closures as German industry drowns in a two-year recession.

This will be the first significant test of the Sahm rule under relatively normal circumstances.

Are we headed for a recession? The answer is complex – although for young people it already feels like one

A string of supportive data in recent weeks and comments from top Federal Reserve officials have helped push equities higher in August after starting the month in turmoil on fears of a US recession.

With the Federal Reserve considered certain to start cutting its benchmark interest rate next month, Chair Jerome Powell’s highly anticipated speech Friday morning at an economic conference will be closely watched for any hints about how many additional rate cuts might be in the pipeline