As we head into 2026, Wall Street expects corporate earnings to increase sharply, which can only occur if the economy ...

Get the latest economic outlook: positive jobless claims and spending contrast with weak housing and commodities. Click for ...

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 ...

The Conference Board’s index of leading indicators rose 0.3% in September after declining over the previous five months. September’s index gain comes on the heels of a revised 0.9% loss in August and ...

The numbers: The leading indicators of the U.S. economy fell again in September because of weakness in a few key industries such as housing and manufacturing, but not enough to suggest any sign of ...

The leading U.S. economic indicators are still pointing to a slowdown, but no longer signal a recession, data from the Conference Board, a nonpartisan and non-profit research organization, showed ...

Business conditions expectations are looking better (although not great) according to small business owners who are at the ...

Many Americans have been in a “vibecession” for a few years now, feeling economically squeezed despite all traditional indicators – inflation, the jobs report, manufacturing – mostly saying otherwise.

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 ...