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Maintained reference pages, each figure sourced and dated: rates and returns, fees, the regulation timeline and the finance glossary.
The monthly US jobs report shows how many people are being hired and how many are out of work. Here is what nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate mean, why they come from two surveys, and why they move markets so much.
GDP is the total value of everything an economy produces in a period, the broadest gauge of its size and growth. Here is how it is measured, the difference between real and nominal, and the important things it leaves out.