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Wall Street is cutting its forecasts for the US economy this year, boosting its projections for inflation and unemployment and nudging up the odds of a recession as the impact of the Iran war starts to come into view.

As the war in Iran marks nearly one month, the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 are down more than 5 percent since the war started, the national average for gas prices are up $1, and concerns that inflation could rise globally are growing.

The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years, even as many households have struggled. The war with Iran is following the same pattern.

The U.S. economy grew at a slower rate than previously thought in the fourth quarter after the Commerce Department released its first revision of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the latest quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA ...

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US central bankers, who will announce their next interest rate decision later today, face a policy dilemma: rising pricing pressures on one side, and slowing economic growth on the other. As DataTrek’s Jessica Rabe wrote in a note this week,

The median forecasts in this calendar come from surveys of economists conducted by Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. All statistics in this calendar are in expressed in nominal terms unless labeled "real.

The U.S. economy has shown resilience in the face of President Donald Trump’s policies, but the war with Iran has driven up oil and gas prices and clouded the economic outlook.