Tag: Recession

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen warned Thursday that the Trump administration target of three percent growth will be "quite challenging" ...

The Federal Reserve said Friday it sees hopeful signs that business investment is poised to rebound from the doldrums of ...

The economy of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation is technically coming out of recession with positive signs, a top official ...

South Africa's economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter of this year, pushing the continent's most advanced economy into its ...

South Africa's economy contracted in the first quarter of this year, pushing the continent's largest economy into its first recession ...

Household debt has surpassed a peak set during the 2008 financial crisis, marking a long, gradual recovering in borrowing by ...

The US central bank's shield from political interference is "under some threat" from Congress, a prospect that could erode progress ...

Wall Street's historic rallies since Donald Trump's election overvalue the president's pledged pro-business tax and regulatory policies, according to a ...

Brazil has been in recession for two years, the latest figures show, marking the deepest economic decline since records began. ...

Wages grew faster than the rate of inflation at the end of 2016, official figures show. In the three months ...

The 2016 Christmas and 2017 New Year festivities were unequivocally interesting in the definition of recession within the Nigerian context. ...

MANY Nigerians sorrowfully misconstrue the supposed looting spree that characterised the successive Nigerian governments as the epicentre of the economic ...

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK-based leading provider of country, industry and management analysis, has forecast a 7 percent ...

President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that he almost left the country when he discovered that the nation’s treasury was empty ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reveled the shutdown of the Kwame Nkrumah FPSO in the second quarter of 2016 ...

Ghana’s economy faces a recession if steps are not taken to diversify its productive sectors, the Head of the Economics ...

Is anyone serious about cutting politicians’ outrageous salaries and allowance? If this recession is not enough reason to deflate an ...

It is not a pleasant situation at all, as Nigeria faces recession; many businesses are in dire straits, consumer demand ...

Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria's economy has slid into recession after negative growth in the first two quarters of the year, ...