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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 ...

Forecasted economic activity was predicting a 2.7% contraction in Q1 real GDP based on Atlanta Fed's GDPNow data. Today’s official real GDP reading, crucial for Federal Reserve policy, showed a milder ...

The International Monetary Fund has just warned of slowing global economic growth in its latest analysis. Similar to this finding, a newly issued report reveals the world’s wealthiest countries by ...

The BEA's second estimate of real gross domestic product showed economic growth decreased at an annual rate of 0.2% in Q1 2025. We are currently at a level below both the 10-year moving average and ...