The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a battery of new data released Friday showed.

In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and job growth fell to a 16-year low. The White House hasn’t said why.

After humming along at a robust pace for much of 2025, the economy hit a wall in the fourth quarter, with a six-week government shutdown and slowdown in consumer spending stunting growth at the end of ...

Wall Street’s major indexes ended lower on Friday as investors digested a fresh batch of economic data, highlighted by the ...

GDP grew at a sluggish 0.7% pace in the final months of 2025 as the government shutdown hurt economic activity.

Tuesday saw the release of much better-than-expected economic data , and Wall Street is weighing what that could mean for the Federal Reserve in the new year. Real gross domestic product rose at a 4.3 ...

Walmart's earnings will headline corporate reports in this holiday-shortened week. There will also be a batch of economic data, including an advance look at fourth-quarter GDP and the Federal ...