This article describes Joseph Ellis' book, Ahead Of the Curve and the leading characteristics of indicators along Mr.

A business cycle's contraction stage is the opposite of its expansion phase. This means that during a cycle's contraction period the economic indicators that went up in its expansion phase will ...

Business Cycle Indicators The U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is popularly used as a business cycle indicator because the cycle is related to aggregate economic activities.

Includes five key indicators referenced by the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee. May observation for manufacturing and trade sales projected using log-linear regression of sales on retail ...

The new guide brings together 78 sensitive business-cycle indicators and divides the bulk of them into three groups: “leaders,”‘ whose turns generally precede that of the economy as a whole ...

• Global indicators confirm the re-acceleration in global growth after a weak start to the year. In the US, strong ISM figures as well as the further improved OECD leading indicator give reason ...

The end result is the Board's set of business cycle indicators, the best-known of which is the index of leading economic indicators, or LEI index.

The indicator — which broadly tracks business cycles using 10 inputs from across manufacturing, unemployment, building permits, and interest rate spreads, among other factors — slipped 1.2% in ...

Both indicators are constructed by condensing a wide range of economic data into a single index that summarizes business cycle conditions. The monthly CFNAI has proved useful as an early indicator of ...

The economy is always in a state of flux, moving through periods of growth and recession, and after both, a full business cycle is complete. That cycle can be broken down further into four stages ...