Have you ever wondered why economies seem to go through booms and busts? These periods of growth and contraction are part ...

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 ...

Hard economic data is likely past its trough, and should continue to accelerate as we progress through 2024. We are still in the early stages of the next expansionary phase in the business cycle. The ...

(Reuters) - An index designed to track turns in U.S. business cycles fell for the 15th straight month in June, dragged down by a weakening consumer outlook and increased unemployment claims, marking ...

The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index declined further in March, suggesting a recession will hit in mid-2023. The LEI is down 4.5% over the last six months, a steeper decline than the 3.5% ...

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 ...