The U.S. economy sped up in the spring, even as the Iran war dragged on, boosted by the twin engines of consumer spending and business investment. The economy has shown remarkable endurance in the ...
Higher consumer spending gave a boost to the economy in the second quarter. The U.S. economy sped up in the spring even as the Iran war dragged on, boosted by the twin engines of consumer spending and ...
United States economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2026 amid a growing deficit and increasing inflationary pressures. US gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.5 percent between April and ...
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GDP is the most widely reported statistic in economic data, but the headline number contains very little information about the direction or momentum of the economy. When the GDP numbers are released ...
DUBAI, May 30 (Reuters) - The UAE's real GDP grew 6.2% in 2025 from a year earlier to ‌1.9 trillion AED ($517.34 billion), with non-oil GDP rising 6.8% to 1.5 trillion AED ($408.43 billion), the state ...
The U.S. economy wasn’t all that great in the first three months of the year. But it wasn’t terrible, either. Gross domestic product, the official scorecard of the economy, was revised down to show ...
Walter J. Radermacher is a statistician at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and former director-general of Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office. Humanity’s inability ...
India has revised its methodology for measuring economic growth after a decade. Better calculations matter, but the real test lies in how policymakers interpret them, and turn them into decisions that ...
The United Nations is considering 31 new indicators to “complement and go beyond” the world’s main measure of economic growth, gross domestic product (GDP). The proposed annual indicators include ...
The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 2% in the first three months of 2026, slower than forecasters expected but a rebound from weak growth in the previous quarter, new government data shows.