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

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

Online dating traffic, cardboard box production and movie success offer insights into consumer behavior and economic health. The combined occurrence of informal indicators can highlight broader ...

The November 2025 issue of the Wyoming Economic Indicators report is available at the state of Wyoming's Economic Analysis ...

This series goes beyond the headlines to reveal what labor market data really says about equity, opportunity, and who the ...

Financial markets experienced dramatic shifts on a striking Monday that left investors uneasy. An abrupt technological stock downturn set off warning signals in key financial indicators. The ...

Technology sector struggles led to S&P 500 pause, while the equally weighted S&P 500 and Russell 2000 small-cap index remained unscathed. Investor rotation from the over-owned, expensive tech sector ...

“What’s a reliable leading indicator of recession that I can easily use in running my business?” I’m often asked that question and seldom give a satisfactory answer. In truth, there are none that are ...

As 2022 draws to a close, we're thinking about which single economic story captured the year. Was it growing interest rates? Increased credit card spending? Problems with the supply chain? Mixed ...

This economic measure has an uncanny ability to forecast the directional movement in stocks. A handful of economic indicators suggest Wall Street isn't out of the woods. Patience has proved to be the ...

There’s a common belief among financial advisors and sophisticated investors: “The stock market is a leading indicator of where the economy will be in the not too distant future.” In fact, economic ...

Every day, the market closely watches economic indicators to tell us what may lie ahead. Some of the data comes quarterly, some monthly and some even weekly. Peter C. Earle, a senior economist at the ...