Economists, analysts, policymakers and investors take the economy’s temperature by examining regularly released data sets called economic indicators. There are all kinds of economic indicators — some ...

The message from leading indicators is of a broad-based and strengthening recovery in the global economy at the start of 2026, pointing to at least 6 months of robust coincident data ahead.

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Global leading indicators improved further at the end of Q2 as markets and decision makers in the real economy concluded that Mr. Trump’s tariff threats are more bark than bite. However, the U.S.

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Lagging indicators are widely used to measure business, economic, and financial market trends. Lagging indicators measure events that have already happened. Lagging indicators lack predictive power ...

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 ...