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The largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history also made 2008 a record year in terms of assets, with Lehman's size—$691 billion (~$960 billion in 2023) in assets—alone surpassing all past annual totals. [60] The year also saw the ninth-biggest bankruptcy, with the failure of IndyMac Bank. [61]
January 6, 2009: Citi claimed that Singapore would experience "the most severe recession in Singapore's history" in 2009. In the end the economy grew in 2009 by 0.1% and in 2010 by 14.5%. [168] [169] [170] January 20–26, 2009: The 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests intensified and the Icelandic government collapsed. [171]
The recession did not show up until 2009, but the recession already slowed down in 2008. The country had a positive growth of 1.5% in 2008 compared to a 3.3% in 2007, by 2009 the economy had shrunk by 6.5%, a percentage bigger than that of the 1994-1995 crisis [ 18 ] and the largest in almost eight decades and registering an inflation of 3.57% ...
South Africa entered recession as the global crisis pounded demand for its main exports; GDP shrank 6.4% in the first quarter of 2009 after falling 1.8% in the last quarter of 2008. This is the first recession for South Africa in 17 years. According to forecasts, the South African domestic product is likely to shrink between 1% and 1.5% in 2009 ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of best-selling book The Black Swan, correctly predicted the 2008 financial crash but said "gloomy" times ahead for the U.S. economy are far more easy to spot.
The recession data for the overall G20 zone (representing 85% of all GWP), depict that the Great Recession existed as a global recession throughout Q3 2008 until Q1 2009. Subsequent follow-up recessions in 2010–2013 were confined to Belize, El Salvador, Paraguay, Jamaica, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand and 24 out of 50 European countries ...
During the 2008 recession, the price of gas fell by as much as 60% to $1.62 per gallon. Most experts believe that a recession would cause gas prices to fall. ... Dodgers land reliever Tanner Scott ...
Fears of a recession or an unsustainably top-heavy S&P 500 seem to be in the rearview mirror. JPMorgan estimates a roughly 10% increase in the S&P 500 for 2025, according to an analyst forecast .