A trough, in economic terms, can refer to a stage in the business cycle where activity is bottoming, or where prices are bottoming, before a rise.

Steve Swinney is CEO of Kodiak Building Partners, a leader in the building materials industry that manages locally led companies. Recent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are a welcome sign ...

Making sense of the economy requires more than just tracking the latest data—it demands a framework for connecting the dots. The good news is that the economy doesn’t move in random spurts—it follows ...

People still buy groceries and fill their gas tanks. Businesses still need to accept payments, pay employees, move funds and ...

Business cycles involve periodic fluctuations of economic activity, such as production and employment. The typical cycle involves a rise in activity that reaches a high point, or peak, followed by a ...

View post: Amazon is selling a $140 smartwatch and fitness tracker for only $20 Understanding what stage an economy is experiencing can spell opportunity for investors, particularly momentum investors ...

Economic cycles feature expansion, peak, contraction, and trough stages. Investors adjust strategies based on the current economic phase. Government tools like interest rates help manage these cycles.

Ken Ferrie advises farmers to navigate agriculture’s cyclical economic waves by managing costs and seizing opportunities during downturns to position themselves for future profitability. If your ...

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 and ...

The National Bureau of Economic Research is the private nonpartisan nonprofit organization that determines the official starts and ends of business cycles. The time from one economic peak to the next, ...

The banking industry performed exceptionally well during the strong economic expansion of the past five years. Strong demand for loans and banking services and the strong supply of quality customers ...