Economists, analysts, policymakers and investors take the economy’s temperature by examining regularly released data sets called economic indicators. There are all kinds of economic indicators — some ...

Kayvan Kian is the author of What Is Water? and a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, where he founded the Young Leaders Forum. When you ask someone how their business is doing, certain people might ...

Stocks end a 9-week winning streak, but the decline is seen as a resolution to overbought condition. The jobs report for December shows softening labor market conditions and a decline in the ...

Institutional asset managers use the copper–gold ratio as one of the 10-year Treasury yield’s leading indicators. Copper and gold are both dollar-denominated commodities that exhibit negative ...

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 ...

For its latest quarterly release, the report from the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center shows the leading indicators for the farm sector’s financial health all show elevated risk. The ...

Companies concerned with the latest focal point of corporate governance are paying attention to human capital – and have started to recognize that one of the cornerstones of this initiative includes a ...

This week has been marked by a raft of good economic news: Retailers are selling a whole lot of stuff to consumers, builders are starting a whole bunch of new houses and unemployment claims are ...