The U.S. expanded at a subpar 1.4% annual pace in the fourth quarter of 2025, depressed by a record 43-day federal shutdown that caused a big decline in government spending.

People in Union Station on April 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. economy has been growing for four years. (Getty Images) A rewind of how the U.S. economy performed in the final three ...

The US economy grew at a much slower pace in the final months of 2025 as the historic government shutdown weighed on economic activity, ending a year that saw the weakest growth since the pandemic.

The US economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter amid solid gains in consumer spending and business investment, but inflation pressures subsided, leaving intact expectations of a ...

The economy grew at a 2.8% annual rate in the third quarter of this year, just under the 3% rate the quarter before, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Wednesday morning in a second estimate of ...

Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.45% in Q4 2024, according to the third estimate. The latest estimate was higher than the 2.3% forecast but lower than the Q3 final estimate ...

The economy picked up sharply in the second quarter as a rise in consumer and business spending offset a drop in housing construction and a widening trade gap. The nation’s gross domestic product, the ...

The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 2.3% in the fourth quarter, in line with the prior reading and economists' expectations. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Thursday ...

The U.S. economy grew slower than expected during the third quarter of this year. Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.8% in Q3 2024, according to the advance estimate. The ...

The economy slowed late last year but still turned in a solid performance as another burst of consumer spending was offset by a drop in business investment and stockpiling. The nation’s gross domestic ...