It's the first full week of 2026, and markets will be tuned in for Friday's timely release of the December jobs report.

2025 was marked by relatively strong job growth in the first few months, followed by cooling, with some months showing net ...

A report covering October and November personal income, consumer spending and PCE inflation data will be published on Jan. 22 ...

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The latest data means 2025 saw the weakest annual job growth since 2003, with just 584,000 jobs added last year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown that began Wednesday will deprive policymakers and investors of economic data vital to their decision-making at a time of unusual uncertainty about the ...

To say that a lot is happening in and to the U.S. economy feels like an understatement. And just as people are having a hard time keeping up with the happenings, the actual economic data is too. So ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently posted data about U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) on multiple blockchains. The move is an effort to win over President Trump's confidence in the figures ...

The economic calendar Thursday features a first revision of second-quarter gross domestic product data at 8:30 a.m. ET, which economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expect to tick up to a 3.1% ...

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data.