Track real-time economic trends with this week's high-frequency indicators. Read more on leading signals on consumer spending ...

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After all, one data set does not make a trend. Here is a chart of a few leading indicators and their lagging counterparts. Recessions, or period of broad-ranging economic decline, typically last ...

To explain why, Jeff points to the high-yield bond sector – a leading indicator for the stock market ... Below, we return to a chart of the U.S. Dollar Index (zoomed in), this time adding ...

OBV instead considers volume as a leading indicator. Julie Bang / Investopedia ... that they follow price and do not lead it. In this chart, we can observe two significant moving average signals.

This is good news since the gold/platinum ratio has risen strongly over the last 12 months, as you can see from the chart above ... as a coincident indicator and as a leading indicator.

Leading indicators are sets of data that can be useful in predicting the future state of the economy. In other words, they are forward-looking and may signal a shift in some part of the economy ...

Leading Span A is the midpoint of the ... customizing parameters and filtering signals with other indicators, perhaps on a separate chart, to improve accuracy and reduce clutter.

The Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators fell again in February, declining by 0.3%. Pessimism among consumers about the future of the economy led to the drop. An index of ...

AT A GLANCE • Increased demand for copper typically indicates a growing economy, just as a drop in copper demand can suggest an economic slowdown • Copper prices are now down more than 25% ...