First, recessions are common in history and recession-related market downturns can be very tough. On average, the S&P has historically lost about a third of its value during these periods.

Chart Of The Week: The Lead-Up To Recessions In this weekly update, we’re going to do something a little different and focus on how the Coincident Index of Real Growth, the Coincident Index of ...

Recessions in the United States have become shorter and less frequent in recent decades. The COVID-19 recession was the shortest on record, while the Great Recession of 2007-2009 was the deepest ...

Happier tunes chart in downturns, so let's play the songs of past recessions : The Indicator from Planet Money A new paper in the Journal of Cultural Economics says happy songs are more popular ...

Our Chart of the Day is from Bank of America and shows that US Treasury bonds are headed for their longest stretch of losses ever, dating all the way back to 1787.

Our Chart of the Day is from Bank of America and shows that US Treasury bonds are headed for their longest stretch of losses ever, dating all the way back to 1787.

A bar chart showing peak unemployment rates in each of the last six US recessions. Rising U.S. unemployment tends to fall disproportionately on Blacks and Hispanics, but each downturn is different.

A recession is a persistent downturn in economic activity. Here we look at the causes and effects of major U.S. recessions since the Great Depression.