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The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. [1] The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map).
World map showing real GDP growth rates for 2009 (countries in brown were in recession) Share in GDP of U.S. financial sector since 1860 [15] The crisis sparked the Great Recession, which, at the time, was the most severe global recession since the Great Depression.
The International Monetary Fund defines a global recession as "a decline in annual per‑capita real World GDP (purchasing power parity weighted), backed up by a decline or worsening for one or more of the seven other global macroeconomic indicators: Industrial production, trade, capital flows, oil consumption, unemployment rate, per‑capita investment, and per‑capita consumption".
The U.S. remains the world’s largest economy by far, with GDP at $27.94 trillion in 2023, while China's was $17.5 trillion. India's is about $3.7 trillion but growing at a sizzling rate of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — As some of the world’s biggest economies stumble into recession, the United States keeps chugging along. Both Japan and the United Kingdom said Thursday their economies likely ...
The 1948 recession was a brief economic downturn; forecasters of the time expected much worse, perhaps influenced by the poor economy in their recent lifetimes. [62] The recession also followed a period of monetary tightening. [40] Recession of 1953: July 1953 – May 1954 10 months 3 years 9 months 6.1% (September 1954) −2.6%
In June 2023, the New York Fed’s model — which calculates recession probabilities based on the yield spread between 10-year Treasury bonds and three-month bills — estimated a 70% chance of a ...
Shanghai Composite dropped to a four-year low, escalating their economic downturn since the 2015 recession. [37] [38] 2020 stock market crash: 24 Feb 2020: The S&P 500 index dropped 34%, 1145 points, at its peak of 3386 on February 19 to 2237 on March 23. This crash was part of a worldwide recession caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns. [39] [40] [41]