Gross domestic product, or GDP, represents the total value of all goods and services produced within a country during one year. Depending on the report, one year can be either one fiscal year or one ...

Tomorrow’s fourth quarter GDP release will likely show a growth rate of around 1.1. percent, a substantial slowdown from the third quarter rate of 3.1 percent. Economists will report that this means ...

Between the backlogged orders from Christmas, ongoing high demand, and an improving flow of products from around the world, goods flooded into the United States in the first three months of this year ...

The latest data from the Department of Commerce show that the economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), grew 2.6% from July through September, at an annualized rate. After two consecutive ...

The economic measurement known as gross domestic product has been called one of the great inventions of the 20th century. Vital for understanding a nation’s economy, GDP is defined as the market value ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Dirk Philipsen On Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will release new ...

Analysts are increasingly skeptical that China's very high reported GDP growth rate provides a meaningful picture of the economy's health. There are, however, at least three very different ways that ...

Pity the GDP - the Gross Domestic Product. It is one of the hardest working statistics in government policy today, a single number that sums up the entirety of a country's productive capabilities. It ...

BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - China is likely to stick to its current annual economic growth target of around 5% next year, ...