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The U.S. economy faces a slowing economy amid growing concerns about the labor market, headwinds from tariffs and a weak manufacturing sector, according to a basket of economic indicators.
The Conference Board’s leading economic index weakened on worries over the labor market and tariffs. A forward-looking gauge ...
Leading Economic Index (LEI), which signals potential inflection points in the economy and where growth is headed in ...
The numbers: The leading indicators of the U.S. economy fell again in September because of weakness in a few key industries such as housing and manufacturing, but not enough to suggest any sign of ...
Index drops negative 0.6% versus forecast of 0.4% The numbers: The leading index for the economy fell 0.6% in July, the fifth straight monthly decline, the Conference Board said Monday. Economists ...
The numbers: The leading indicators of the U.S. economy fell for the eighth month in a row in October, but there’s still no sign the current four-year-old expansion is in trouble. The leading index ...
(Reuters) -A measure of future U.S. economic activity fell in May for the sixth straight month and triggered a recession signal, held down by consumer pessimism, weak new orders for manufactured goods ...
At the risk of mixing metaphors, we continue to wait for Godot’s other shoe to drop. Whether it is the long-anticipated recession, more bank failures (or something else in the financial system ...
The U.S. economy is set to slow, leading economic indicators say, with the impact of tariffs becoming more pronounced in the second half of the year through higher prices. The Leading Economic Index, ...
The NCSU INDEX OF NORTH CAROLINA LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS (the “Index”), an indicator of the direction of the State economy in the upcoming months, decreased 0.1%, continuing a downward trend which ...
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 ...
In our last article, we explored the broader framework that underpins our process for tracking the Business Cycle — the EPB Four Economy Framework. (Click here to read the previous post) In that ...