Just 20 days ago, the US stock market was sitting at all-time highs. The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight.

U.S. stocks have suffered their sharpest selloff in months as investors have grown nervous that Trump will slow the economy with import duties.

The signs of a recession, how they affect the public and what you can do to prepare financially in case one comes.

Recession chatter is still making the rounds on Wall Street, but cooler inflation is quelling fears of a dire scenario for the Fed.

Against that backdrop, Wednesday’s consumer-price index report comes into sharp focus as investors hope for more clarity on whether recent fears of stagflation — a toxic mix of elevated inflation and a stumbling economy — appear justified.

Over the last year, while President Joe Biden was in office, Trump took credit for stock market rallies as a vote of confidence in his electoral prospects. When the market dipped, he blamed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. And he predicted that if Democrats won the 2024 presidential election, the stock market would have crashed.

After a brutal stock market selloff because of his tariff threats, President Donald Trump faces pressure Tuesday to show he has a legitimate plan to grow the economy instead of perhaps pushing it into a recession.

Stocks markets have fallen in the US and Asia over concerns about the negative economic impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs. It followed the president saying in a TV interview that the world's biggest economy was in a "period of transition",

When Donald Trump was reelected in November, many investors declared the so-called Trump Trade would spur US stocks to new highs. But markets are now spooked by fears the world's largest economy is close to recession.

The major U.S. stock indexes tumbled on Monday, as concerns about the effects of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on economic growth spooked investors.