Maryland and local leaders are keeping a watchful eye on economic indicators that could hint at a looming recession.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that she expects the U.S. economy to slow in the months ahead, but that a recession is not inevitable.

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Is the United States at risk of enduring another recession, just two years after emerging from the last one?

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern that the pandemic recession has had an unusually harmful economic effect on women.

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PARIS — A slowdown in international trade could be a harbinger of a new recession for the world’s leading economies, a leading global policy organization warned Monday. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says trade figures are worrisome because ...

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When the economy tanks, women have fewer babies. But what happens in the following years, when conditions improve?

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Federal regulators are set to require big banks to keep enough high-quality assets on hand to survive during a severe downturn, the latest move under the congressional mandate to lessen the likelihood of another financial meltdown.

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Consumer spending in Maryland rose slowly but steadily in the years after the Great Recession, according to a report released by the federal government on Thursday.

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The Federal Reserve offered a mixed message on the U.S. economy Wednesday: Growth is strengthening, and the unemployment rate is steadily falling. Yet by some measures, the job market remains subpar.

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The risk of losing your job is getting smaller and smaller.

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