Discover leading, coincident, and lagging business cycle indicators to predict economic trends, using insights from the Conference Board.

Discover how coincident indicators reflect current economic conditions, their role in analyzing business cycles, and their impact on understanding economic trends.

The recent run in equities appears to be at odds with weakening labor market signals, which has led to questions about the sustainability of the rally and the broader health of the U.S. economy. While ...

One reason for the difficulty in forecasting economic events is that predictions must be based largely on statistics that are often both old and incomplete. Last week the Commerce Department sought to ...

Among the indicators that have failed to provide timely signals of an approaching recession: the yield curve, the Leading Economic Index, and temporary help employment, which Axios notes “was big tell ...

The leading U.S. economic indicators are still pointing to a slowdown, but no longer signal a recession, data from the Conference Board, a nonpartisan and non-profit research organization, showed ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The South African rand softened on Tuesday after the release of a local leading business cycle indicator. At 1501 GMT the rand traded at 17.6575 against the dollar , ...