During a typical recession, consumer demand drops, meaning that companies selling products and services lower their prices (or at least not raise them) in order to entice reluctant customers to spend.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports have raised concerns about a possible recession, with stock markets ...

Before that, the U.S. economy was in the Great Recession from 2007 ... The NBER, though, defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy ...

“But when you see the unemployment rate increasing, that's a pretty good sign that we may be in a recession,” Angel said.

Economists warn the U.S. economy may suffer most—but a range of knock-on effects will ripple across the world.

The biggest stock market decline ever came during the Great Depression ... to say whether a recession is imminent. The stock market is an early indicator of potential economic trouble; it is ...

For a recession, the decline is prolonged from around ... the December 2007 to June 2009 Great Recession. The bureau identifies economic peaks and troughs. A peak is the last month of expansion ...