business cycle
noun
: a cycle of economic activity usually consisting of recession, recovery, growth, and decline
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According to PwC's 29th Global CEO Survey, CEOs consistently rank their ability to keep pace with technological change, including AI, as one of their most pressing concerns, with speed of transformation emerging as the defining strategic anxiety of the current business cycle.
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Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
But Anthropic also warns that AI’s job impacts could be slow to show up in the job data—much like the impacts of Chinese manufacturing or the Internet—and could be hard to distinguish from regular business cycle concerns.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2026
Nomura believes that improving financial performance and a better shipment outlook suggest that Nio is entering a healthier business cycle.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
This finding is not surprising and fits well with a long economic literature showing that countries are more likely to trade with nearby countries and that the volume of trade between two countries is a significant predictor of how synchronized their business cycles are.
—Josh Ederington, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
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Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
But Anthropic also warns that AI’s job impacts could be slow to show up in the job data—much like the impacts of Chinese manufacturing or the Internet—and could be hard to distinguish from regular business cycle concerns.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2026
Nomura believes that improving financial performance and a better shipment outlook suggest that Nio is entering a healthier business cycle.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
This finding is not surprising and fits well with a long economic literature showing that countries are more likely to trade with nearby countries and that the volume of trade between two countries is a significant predictor of how synchronized their business cycles are.
—Josh Ederington, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Business cycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/business%20cycle. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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