Learn what lagging indicators are, how they confirm economic, business, and technical trends, and their role in ...

The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index declined by 0.6% in March, reversing a February increase.

The persistent decline in the US Leading Economic Index and Employment Trends Index signals rising recession risk despite the AI-driven capex surge. Employment growth has slowed to recessionary levels ...

M/M to 97.4 vs. -0.3% consensus and -0.6% prior, according to data released by The Conference Board on Friday. Coincident ...

Most economic indicators are retrospective, meaning they look backward. This includes GDP, unemployment, retail sales and so on. It is for that reason that I pay very close attention to leading ...

"However, persistently weak consumer expectations indicators and the (Institute for Supply Management's) new orders index ...

Where is this economy going? Honestly, we don’t know. Economists don’t know. The stock market — we say it all the time here— is not the economy, and it doesn’t know, either. Hard economic data about ...

The S & P 500 as a whole is telling a bullish story taking place on Wall Street this year. Strip out the megacap technology names, and it tells a much different one. Investors have piled into the tech ...

The US economy generates dozens of economic indicators each month, from the jobs report to PCE to the federal funds rate. For investment professionals and RIAs, the question is which ones actually ...