Employment is a lagging indicator and cannot improve much until the economy picks up.
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But that lagging indicator failed to take into account the surge in exports starting in 2010.
Job losses will remain a lagging indicator, keeping inflation at bay in the near term.
This ability to read the next move in a stock is often absent from your charts, a lagging indicator.
This is troubling, since awareness is a lagging indicator of brand strength.
And since the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator, that figure increased even further to 8.2% in December of 1975.
Now the headlines are best viewed as a lagging indicator of bad deeds past, not a sign of current conduct.
No, the "Orange Marilyn" is neither a leading nor a lagging indicator, but merely a coincident indicator of our corporate world's prosperity.
Every economist will say jobs are a lagging indicator, but that's no consolation for the folks who are out there suffering right now.
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First, for those who follow the adds and drops from the Goldman Sachs Conviction List may recognize this to be a lagging indicator.
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Of course, I feel that fundamentals are often a lagging indicator and a stock can drop 20% and still be a growth company.
In my book, this is a lagging indicator, and as such is only used as confirmation of a position that I am already in.
My graphic is in a way a lagging indicator of scientific leadership, since Nobel Prizes typically recognize discoveries published between ten and thirty years earlier.
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Employment is no doubt a lagging indicator, and we see this as further evidence of a tepid recovery that is still vulnerable to pull back.
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"Jobs are a lagging indicator, not a never indicator, " Morici said.
Understanding that unemployment tends to be a lagging indicator and if economists are correct and we are only halfway through this recession, the unemployment picture should worsen considerably.
International is also probably a lagging indicator for the company.
Historically, employment has been a lagging indicator in economic recoveries.
Moreover, official price data are a lagging indicator, analysts said.
"It's a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator, " Steidtmann says.
On the surface that seems to make sense, but history shows that employment is a lagging indicator, one of the last areas to begin improving in an economic recovery.
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The market has completely ignored the ongoing negative reports from the housing industry, usually a leading indicator, instead focusing on the jobs picture, which is historically a lagging indicator.
The stock loan data provides a lagging indicator of what the smart money is doing, but one of its chief values is the window it provides into selling trends.
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Watching Dorit engage with the children and talking with her afterward it became obvious that what she did with the children was a lagging indicator of how she felt about them.
But surely the Fed knows that employment is a lagging indicator, and using it as a leading indicator for its policies is almost sure to have it on the wrong side of the cycle.
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With GDP growth generally a lagging indicator, it is often more rewarding to pay attention to policies that encourage economic growth when trying to predict outperforming global markets, says Vlad Signorelli, Global Research Director at Brettonwoods Research LLC.
Although consumer confidence is a lagging indicator, the low reading did not surprise me, and I believe is an accurate assessment of the collective mindsets of consumers at present, given all of the volatility that we saw in the stock market during the month of August.
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