The Federal Reserve designs its monetary policy to manage the business cycle. The period following a trough is the expansionary phase, which the Fed brings on by lowering interest rates and adding ...

A business cycle is said to be complete when the economy goes through a contraction and expansion in sequence. While the expansion reflects a rapid economic growth rate, the contraction reflects ...

An economic cycle, or business cycle, has four stages: expansion, peak, contraction, and trough. The average economic cycle in the U.S. has lasted roughly five and a half years since 1950 ...

The “business cycle” might just be one of the oldest ideas in economics. For more than 200 years, economists have been pointing to the tendency of economies to expand, then slow down, contract ...

Recent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are a welcome sign for most businesses, ... Economists generally focus on four distinct phases of the economic and business cycle: expansion, ...

We take a forward-looking snapshot of the current business cycle with the help from the predictive power of our ETF ranking system. On the surface, sector rotation is a phenomenon that investors ...

Is the U.S. economy’s current expansion past its sell-by date? Will we soon go back to the employment levels we had before 2008, or did the recession do lasting damage? Macroeconomists wrestle ...