GDP measures total economic output within a country over a specific period. Investors use GDP to anticipate market shifts and adjust portfolios accordingly. Buying cyclical stocks during GDP growth ...

At Illusion of Prosperity, Stagflationary Mark posted this scatter-graph of quarterly GDP YoY growth and CPI data from Q1, 1948 through Q4, 2011. Each point represents the differences from the medians ...

Gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total value of goods and services a state or country produces over a given period. Though the United States is not the largest country in the world – either by ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

COLOMBO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's economy grew 6.4 percent in the second quarter of 2012, its lowest since the last quarter of 2009, dragged down by the service sector and slowing from a 7.9 ...