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 unemployment ...

With a new year comes new beginnings — and new ways of looking at things. As we enter 2022, we were wondering what small-business owners could be looking at to find information that helps them. To get ...

Economic indicators are released every week to provide insight into the overall health and performance of an economy. They serve as essential tools for policymakers, advisors, investors, and ...

Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation Reviews the Performance indicators of the Egyptian ...

Economic indicators play a central role in understanding the health and performance of the U.S. economy. They are essential tools for policymakers, advisors, investors, and businesses because they ...

The investing world is awash in economic data. Amid this potential data overload, how does an investor separate truly useful data from the noise? For example, quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) ...

Economists often use imperfect historical information to form opinions about the economy’s direction. We often don’t know we’re in a recession until it’s well underway—typically, the National Bureau ...

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THE fall-off in business is emphasizing a question that has long bothered economists: How accurate are the dozen or more key statistics generally used to show the healthof the U.S. economy? Last week ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has his data. Financial advisors have theirs. In fact, financial advisors often rely on their own signposts to guide their market decisions. “When my clients that ...