While the NBER collects economic data ostensibly to aid policymakers, the data it acquires is useless without proper economic ...

The U.S. Census Bureau said on Wednesday it was adopting several strategies, including shortening the window for Principal Federal Economic Indicators collection, to get economic data back to their ...

A country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output, is central to how governments assess their economies. But this figure, when looked at in isolation, which is most often ...

Larger than expected revisions to economic indicators have been a hot topic of discussion lately, following the July U.S. nonfarm payrolls report earlier this month, which showed one of the largest ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

On economic policy, the Prime Minister said the government is updating the State Ownership Policy Document, whose initial ...

The leading U.S. economic indicators are still pointing to a slowdown, but no longer signal a recession, data from the Conference Board, a nonpartisan and non-profit research organization, showed ...

The yield curve has long been a closely watched indicator of economic health. When the yield curve inverts, meaning short-term interest rates exceed long-term rates, it is often seen as a harbinger of ...