Profit growth remains strong, one of the best leading indicators of future growth and investment.
Leading indicators of economic well-being are beginning to show important signs of a recovery.
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In the twelve months before OECD leading indicators peak, markets on average return 24%, UBS found.
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Six-month leading indicators increased for new orders and shipments as well as for future employment.
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The stock market is one of the more reliable leading indicators of the economy.
Leading indicators dropped 0.3%, after jumping 0.7% in March, and existing-home sales were also lower.
The stock market is as good a predictor of that as other leading indicators.
Broyhill Letter, we suggest that increased caution is prudent given a number of leading indicators.
Thursday will feature September existing home sales, the October Philadelphia Fed survey and September leading indicators.
PMIs are leading indicators for global resources stocks, which have lagged over the past year.
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The leading indicators also were up last week with the weak consumer sentiment the primary negative.
The leading indicators were also released last week by the Conference Board, and were down 0.1%.
The Leading Indicators were also higher last Thursday as eight out of ten components showed monthly gains.
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The Conference Board reported Thursday that the LEI, their index of ten leading indicators, rose 0.2%.
The main leading indicators in both directions, into recessions and back out, are almost always housing and autos.
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So how should one interpret the plunge in the past year in all three series of leading indicators?
They are the leading indicators of confidence among operators in the 99.9 percentile.
Both properties were disdained by analysts and chewed up in the financial press, potent counter intuitive positive leading indicators.
One of my special leading indicators, Christmas tree sales along the sidewalks of Columbus Avenue, spiked this past weekend.
One problem is that there are sometimes false-start turning-points in the leading indicators which turn out to go nowhere.
Stock market operators like me surely will squint at any wobbly leading indicators.
They are the leading indicators that must improve for quite some time before employment finally begins to turn the corner.
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Further support came from weaker-than-expected data on Thursday, specifically the drop in U.S. leading indicators and the Philadelphia Fed index.
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It is true that there are no signs yet of higher inflation, but leading indicators suggest the need for caution.
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The persistent fall in the leading indicators suggests that growth could remain disappointing in the first half of this year.
On Thursday, in addition to jobless claims which have been edging higher recently we get the Philadelphia Fed Survey and the Leading Indicators.
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The Conference Board's index of leading indicators for July rose more than expected, but still suggests little improvement in the economy.
Next, throw in a few leading indicators, such as number of proposals submitted, new customers signed up, or new employees hired.
The leading indicators of the economy are measurements of consumer activity, obvious since consumer spending accounts for 65% of the U.S. economy.
Both retail sales and industrial production were better than most analysts expected, while the leading indicators jumped an impressive 0.6% in September.
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