Traders at the New York Stock Exchange had a stressful few days last week amid a trade war driven by President Donald Trump's ...

The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression.

the stock market recovered relatively quickly. The Dow started rebounding in November 1987 and had recouped all its losses by September 1989. Image source: Getty Images. In 1999, the Federal ...

During a typical recession, consumer demand drops, meaning that companies selling products and services lower their prices (or at least not raise them) in order to entice reluctant customers to spend.

S&P 500 companies lost a combined $2.4 trillion in stock market value in Thursday's selloff on Wall Street, their biggest one ...