Most economic indicators are retrospective, meaning they look backward. This includes GDP, unemployment, retail sales and so on. It is for that reason that I pay very close attention to leading ...

As of May, 10 out of 16 leading indicators in the sample were trending upward, signaling a robust upturn in global economic activity. Coincident indicators, meanwhile, surged toward the end of Q1, ...

Global leading indicators were hanging on for dear life in April, strained by the shock of President Trump’s tariff measures. Sustained resilience in the global macro environment now depends heavily ...

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 ...

For its latest quarterly release, the report from the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center shows the leading indicators for the farm sector’s financial health all show elevated risk. The ...

The Conference Board’s index of leading indicators rose 0.3% in September after declining over the previous five months. September’s index gain comes on the heels of a revised 0.9% loss in August and ...