The Conference Board’s Leading Indicators Index (or LEI) report for the month of March, will be released on Monday, April 21. About the Conference Board’s Leading Indicator Index The Conference ...

Where is this economy going? Honestly, we don’t know. Economists don’t know. The stock market — we say it all the time here— is not the economy, and it doesn’t know, either. Hard economic data about ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the US declined by 0.5% in August 2025 to 98.4 (2016=100), after a small 0.1% increase in July (upwardly ...

The Conference Board is moving its New York City office a block north in Midtown East. The global nonprofit, a member-driven think tank that provides business insights to industry executives, has ...

A forward-looking index of economic indicators put out by The Conference Board is flashing warning signs of “economic slowdown.” The Leading Economic Index, or LEI, fell sharply in April by 1% after ...

The U.S. consumer confidence index edged up to 92.8 in April, topping the 89.4 consensus, from 92.2 in March, according to data released by The Conference Board on Tuesday. March's reading was revised ...

About the author: Paul Washington is the executive director of the Conference Board ESG Center and is former corporate secretary of Time Warner. He is the co-author of the report , “The Roles of the ...

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the US increased slightly by 0.1% in May 2026 to 99.3 (2016=100), ...

Trade tensions with the U.S. will likely mean a painful next few months for workers and the economy but could be short-lived, the Conference Board of Canada said in its latest outlook. Canada could ...