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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was written by the Bloomberg Enterprise Investment Research Data team: Frances Shi, Kevin Kwan, Jerome Barkate and Nakul Nair. Welcome to Data Spotlight, our series showcasing insights ...