The Index of Leading Indicators forecast a deep recession in the past year, which did not come close to materializing, for two major reasons. First, manufacturing, which used to have a significant ...

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For months, people have been talking about indicators of the dreaded R-word: recession. There have been the usual suspects: economists, investors, businesspeople and journalists. But maybe the most ...

Pinpointing the right moment to apply your trading strategy is critical to forex trading. Trends help you accurately read the market's directional movements so you can jump on a trade at the right ...

Every quarter, the markets wait with bated breath to find out what the latest economic indicators–everything from the job report and consumer spending to GDP growth–tell us about where things are ...

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 ...

Buy low and sell high. That sounds easy, right? The problem is defining what exactly "low" means. How do you define whether the stock market is cheap or expensive? Precisely valuing the market is ...