Business Cycle Dating Committee Announcements. The NBER is the most widely accepted arbiter of recessions and recoveries in the US business cycle. The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee determines when peaks and troughs in economic activity occur A recession is the period between the peak and a trough. A recovery is the period between a trough and a peak.
Read MoreUnemployment rate. NBER-dated recessions in gray. Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. US Business Cycle Dates. Business Cycle Dating Committee Announcements.
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Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research. This report is also available as a PDF file. NBER COMMITTEE MEETS: NO PEAK ANNOUNCED. BOSTON, December 31 -- NBER's Committee on Business Cycle Dating met on December 29 to review data on the recent performance of the U.S. economy.
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The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call on Friday, November 28. The committee maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates (months and quarters) of U.S. recessions. The committee determined that a peak in economic activity occurred in the U.S. economy in December 2007.
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CAMBRIDGE, June 03 -- The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee met today at the Bureau's headquarters in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and identified January 1980 as the most recent peak in U.S. business activity. Unless there is an extraordinarily sharp and quick reversal of activity, this peak will mark the onset of a recession.
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CAMBRIDGE September 20, 2010 - The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009.
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Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research. This report is also available as a PDF file. RECOVERY BEGAN IN NOVEMBER. CAMBRIDGE, July 08 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday in Cambridge and identified November 1982 as the trough of the recession that had begun in the United States in July 1981.
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NBER COMMITTEE CONFERS: NO PEAK ANNOUNCED CAMBRIDGE, December 21 - The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call on December 21. The Committee observed that output and employment in the U.S. economy are falling.
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NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee Determines that Recession Began in July 1990. CAMBRIDGE, April 25 - The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research reached the judgment today that the peak of U.S. economic activity occurred in July 1990. The current U.S. recession thus began in July 1990, in the committee's view.
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CAMBRIDGE, April 12 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met at the organization s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 8, 2010. The committee reviewed the most recent data for all indicators relevant to the determination of a possible date of the trough in economic activity marking the end of the recession that began in December 2007.
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Determines that Recession Ended in March 1991 CAMBRIDGE, December 22, 1992 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call yesterday. The committee maintains a chronology of the U.S. business cycle that is widely used in the analysis of business conditions.
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Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research. This report is also available as a PDF file. CURRENT RECESSION BEGAN IN JULY. CAMBRIDGE, January 06 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met today and identified July 1981 as the most recent peak in U.S. economic activity.
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