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.

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The investing world is awash in economic data. Amid this potential data overload, how does an investor separate truly useful data from the noise? For example, quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) ...

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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 ...

Leading indicators provide early signals about where the economy is heading. Coincident indicators move in step with the economy, providing real-time insights into economic activity. Examining the ...

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 ...

Everyone has a different opinion on how best to take the measure of the markets and the economy at large. At Money Morning, we dive deep into the unconventional trends shaping markets and turn passive ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

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 ...