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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They are the leading indicators of confidence among operators in the 99.9 percentile.
One problem is that there are sometimes false-start turning-points in the leading indicators which turn out to go nowhere.
They are the leading indicators that must improve for quite some time before employment finally begins to turn the corner.
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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 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.
One of the economic reports that I watch closely for clues to the condition and future of the markets is the Leading Indicators from the Conference Board.
The Leading Indicators from the Conference Board declined 0.3% in June, but the long-term chart from their press release shows that both the Leading and Coincident Economic Indexes are still rising, and show no signs of a recession.
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The leading indicators the OECD uses for the UK include new car registrations, the Confederation of British Industry's business climate survey, a measure of the stocks of finished goods and a measure of consumer confidence, all weighted, added together and compared to an estimation of the trend.
There was the first drop to a negative reading by the Leading Economic Indicators in nine months, the largest decline in durable goods orders since last August, big plunges in new home starts and permits for future starts.
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Retail sales and the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) beat estimates, with the LEI jumping to 0.9% from 0.2% the prior month.
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While most home price indices point to an imminent double-dip, one of the few leading indicators forecasts that pricing stability will hit 75% of metro markets by the end of 2011.
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The stock market is one of the more reliable leading indicators of the economy.
Profit growth remains strong, one of the best leading indicators of future growth and investment.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday is light and includes the leading economic indicators index.
Retail sales were strong last week, and the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) jumped sharply.
The main leading indicators in both directions, into recessions and back out, are almost always housing and autos.
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So far the leading tech indicators are not good with Google, Intel and IBM all reporting weak earnings.
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It has a lot to do with the recent performance of the stock market, a pretty good measure of sentiment as well as one of the better leading indicators of real economic activity.
The ratio is closely watched because as Ferrarone notes it shows a high degree of correlation to the year-over-year change in the OECD leading indicators, which in turn closely corresponds to market returns.
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U.S. stocks were mixed in the early half of the session, as investors wait for economic reports including the Leading Economic Indicators in November and an important regional manufacturing gauge due out later today.
These signs have included significant drops in initial jobless claims, increases in the index of Leading Indicators, as well as the ISM manufacturing new orders index extending above 50.
The OECD said its leading indicators for the U.K., Canada, Brazil and Russia suggest those economies will grow at around their trend rates.
The euro zone has long been the weakest part of the global economy, but the OECD's leading indicators for the currency area rose in February for the 10th successive month.
Another lending rate cut is likely following the soft May leading indicators and weak new lending in the first four weeks of the month.
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