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

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

Using the US stock market as a guide suggests that business cycle conditions remain strong in terms of the recovery since the current economic expansion began in May 2020. The recovery in nonfarm ...

Among the indicators that have failed to provide timely signals of an approaching recession: the yield curve, the Leading Economic Index, and temporary help employment, which Axios notes “was big tell ...

A gauge of leading indicators ticked up in November for the first time since February 2022 on a rising stock market and rebound in the construction sector following President-elect Donald Trump's win.

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 ...

One reason for the difficulty in forecasting economic events is that predictions must be based largely on statistics that are often both old and incomplete. Last week the Commerce Department sought to ...