Here is a chart of a few leading indicators and their lagging counterparts. Recessions, or period of broad-ranging economic decline, typically last from 6 months to a year. But the National Bureau ...

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 ...

Some indicators, like the unemployment rate, the ratio between leading and lagging economic indicators, and the gold-oil ratio, disagree, pointing to an impending slowdown. Since the U.S. Federal ...

While some in the economic community see the CCI as a lagging indicator, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) considers consumer confidence a leading indicator ...

or lagging. The employment component gets a ... an actionable scenario for investors, in our view. No economic indicator is perfect, including PMIs. Their main benefits are their timeliness ...

The reason this has many investors worried is the belief that the transportation sector is a leading indicator of U.S. economic activity. Yet I couldn’t find any data to back this up.

The leading, coincident, and lagging economic indexes are essentially composite averages of several individual leading, coincident, or lagging indicators. The December leading index is expected to ...

The Roughly Coincident Indicator also increased, climbing to 75 from 58, indicating growing strength in current economic activity. Meanwhile, the Lagging Indicator rebounded from contractionary ...