Because of all the bad news, more and more economists foresee the country falling into a recession, according to the latest survey by the National Association for Business Economics. The group said in a report being released today that 45 ...

economy would avoid a recession ... A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of declines in economic ...

Analysts said the two new reports Friday were just the latest danger signals that the country was edging perilously close to a recession ... Taking away the effect of rising prices, spending showed no gain in January, the second straight ...

Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years - and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force - an ominous sign that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one ... "It sounds like ...

economy may be in recession, which would decrease fuel demand. Algerian Oil Minister Chakib Khelil, who becomes the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' president ...

That's usually defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, although recessions are called after the fact by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which measures recession as a protracted slowdown in a wide range of business activities. ...

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumers, jolted by a credit crisis, job cuts and soaring energy costs, turned in the weakest spending performance in 17 months in February, further evidence that the risks of a recession are increasing ...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Consumers, jolted by a credit crisis, job cuts and soaring energy costs, turned in the weakest spending performance in 17 months in February, further evidence that the risks of a recession are increasing ... ...

That's usually defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, although recessions are called after the fact by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which measures recession as a protracted slowdown in a wide range of business ...

From wire reports Worker productivity, the key factor in rising living standards, slowed sharply in the final three months of the year, another sign that economic activity is weakening. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that ...

employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession ... The country hadn't seen such a nationwide job loss since 2003, when ...

com and a NABE panelist, said he believed the economy entered into a recession in December and it will pull out of the downturn in June, aided by $168 billion in federal rebate checks that begin going out to millions of families in May ... "A ...

By Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Consumers turned in the weakest spending performance in 17 months in February, while their confidence dropped to the lowest level in 16 years, raising further fears of a recession ... And if the effects of ...

Seriously, I don't think California is going to get a break anytime soon I think it was yesterday RealtyTrac announced there were over a quarter million properties that received a default notice, were notified of an auction, or were foreclosed during ...

By Stephen Foley More than half of all US retailers missed sales expectations in January, deepening fears of a consumer-led slowdown that could tip the economy into a recession. As a slew of big-name stores released sales figures yesterday, ...