A simple reason explains why U.S. economic growth seemed to hit a wall in the final three months of the year.

The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a battery of new data released Friday showed.

In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and job growth fell to a 16-year low. The White House hasn’t said why.

GDP grew at a sluggish 0.7% pace in the final months of 2025 as the government shutdown hurt economic activity.

A Bank of America Institute analysis of 2,000 years of GDP data reframes American exceptionalism — and points toward what comes next.

Tuesday saw the release of much better-than-expected economic data , and Wall Street is weighing what that could mean for the Federal Reserve in the new year. Real gross domestic product rose at a 4.3 ...