economic recession

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of laid-off workers applying for unemployment aid fell below one million last week for the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains of May and…

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) — On the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon’s second biggest city and one of its poorest, there are…

PARIS (AP) — The economy of the 19-country eurozone shrank by a devastating 12.1 percent during the second quarter from…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Having endured what was surely a record-shattering slump last quarter, the US economy faces a dim outlook…

DUBAI (Reuters) — Economic activity in the Gulf will contract sharply this year before recovering in 2021, hit by the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian economy could shrink by as much as 11 percent in the coming year as the…

BEIRUT (Reuters) — At a street market in southern Beirut, Lebanese crowd around volunteers handing out free rations of bread…

Egypt has lowered its growth target for fiscal year 2020-2021 to 3.5 percent, down from its original target of 5.8…

Brought on by precautionary measures against the novel coronavirus, a recession has hit clothing, shoe and gift markets in Egypt,…