The business organization’s index of leading indicators fell by 0.3% in the month, following an upwardly revised 0.2% drop in January. Over the past six months, however, the index fell by 1%, less ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, with focus shifting to future policy guidance. Investors ...

The LEI crunches together 10 key data points, including manufacturing orders, jobless claims, consumer confidence and stocks.

The hard data still points to a strong economy. But "soft" data — like consumer confidence readings — paints a different ...

GDP measures economic size; CPI and PPI gauge goods costs impacting buying power and production costs. Leading indicators like housing starts predict economic trends, lagging ones like ...

Consumers, businesses and investors are increasingly jittery about the risks of a protracted slump. So what exactly is a ...

Welfare measurement is among the most fundamental questions in economics. Policymakers and others use gross domestic product ...

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, which runs $1.6 trillion in assets, has ...

However, it is the best single measure of whether economic activity is strengthening or diminishing. We economists look at ...

The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady Wednesday, indicating it will be evaluating the effects of ...