Tag: U.S. economy

February 25, 2021

Jobless claims fell sharply last week despite severe winter storms that swept across Texas and other parts of the South, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time filings for unemployment insurance totaled 730,000 for the week ended Feb. 20, well below […]

January 21, 2021

What big banks reveal about the economy America’s biggest banks have all now released their financial results for the past year, data that reflect the strange economic situation facing President Biden and his new administration. Parts of the economy are […]

January 11, 2021

Interest rates could rise sooner than forecast as the economy recovers more quickly than expected from the throes of the Covid-19 damage, Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Monday. While most of his colleagues don’t see a rate hike […]

December 16, 2020

The Federal Reserve dialed up its economic expectations slightly for the end of this year as well as for 2021, according to the central bank’s Summary of Economic Projections released on Wednesday. The central bank now expects real gross domestic […]

December 2, 2020

For the second straight quarter, the world’s leading chief financial officers have a more positive outlook on the Chinese economy than they do for the economy of the United States. In the Q4 CNBC Global CFO Council Survey, CFOs gave […]

November 20, 2020

JPMorgan economists now see an economic contraction in the first quarter due to the spreading coronavirus and related restrictions being imposed by states and cities. The new forecast is a departure from Wall Street’s widely held view that the first […]

November 20, 2020

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday that the top states with the highest unemployment are run by Democratic governors while those with the lowest unemployment are run by Republicans. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Navarro noted […]

November 11, 2020

Economists and market analysts say that when President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office in January, he will inherit a battered economy. While most metrics of economic activity have risen from the record-shattering lows they hit in March and […]

November 4, 2020

As the question remains over who will capture the hotly contested presidential race, one casualty quickly emerging from fallout is the massive stimulus package Democrats were hoping to get to boost the economy. A blue-wave victory in Tuesday’s elections was […]

October 29, 2020

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at a record annual rate of 33.1 percent in the third quarter of 2020, as efforts continued to reopen businesses and resume activities put on hold by the pandemic, the Bureau of Economic Analysis […]