recession

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He expects the cease-fire to be net positive for the benchmark index, as it’s dominated by financials and cyclicals that could benefit from reduced risks of inflation risk and recession.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

And the Detroit stalwarts survived their own near-death experience during the 2007-09 recession, when U.S. taxpayers bailed out GM and Chrysler.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

In 2022, expectations that aggressive interest-rate hikes by the Fed would trigger a recession caused stocks to log their biggest decline since 2008.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

A recession could delay industrial capital spending and reduce data-center buildout.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

The most obvious explanation of the red shift was in terms of the Doppler effect: the galaxies were receding from us; the more distant the galaxy the greater its speed of recession.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan