Every day, it seems, some economic indicator -- maybe the unemployment or inflation rates -- is reported by the government or another group, analysts plug the data into their models, and the media ...

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

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 Leading ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell and his colleagues like to talk about their “data-dependent approach.” In other words, their decisions about whether to raise interest rates or hold them steady depend ...

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 ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

Larger than expected revisions to economic indicators have been a hot topic of discussion lately, following the July U.S. nonfarm payrolls report earlier this month, which showed one of the largest ...

A country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output, is central to how governments assess their economies. But this figure, when looked at in isolation, which is most often ...

When back-tested to 1959, this leading economic index has predicted U.S. recessions with 100% accuracy. However, this leading economic indicator is butting heads with bull market metrics that have ...