Discover leading, coincident, and lagging business cycle indicators to predict economic trends, using insights from the Conference Board.

The banking industry performed exceptionally well during the strong economic expansion of the past five years. Strong demand for loans and banking services and the strong supply of quality customers ...

Every city, organization and business has something in common: a defined life cycle. Take New Orleans, for example. US Route 90—a segment of the Ponchartrain expressway—cuts through the heart of New ...

Consumer spending is a coincident-to-lagging indicator, not a leading one, so it’s a poor tool for forecasting the business cycle. Durable goods consumption is the most cyclical and informative ...

The way this business cycle likely ends was finally visible in the corporate earnings reports released in the last few days. It’s not about a downturn in growth due to waning consumer demand, though ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With markets in the grip of AI euphoria and myriad uncertainties surrounding the global economy, investors are ...

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LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Whatever 2025 holds for world markets, talk of an end to business cycle investing eerily reflects past periods of hubris and makes all the persistent bullishness seem ...