Key recession signals include the Leading Economic Index, Consumer Confidence Index, plunging lumber prices, and freight ...

Most economic indicators are retrospective, meaning they look backward. This includes GDP, unemployment, retail sales and so on. It is for that reason that I pay very close attention to leading ...

Pre-market futures are flat following a sixth-straight up-day on the S&P 500. Market sentiment — likely due to partiality toward positive trade deals in the works with global trading partners of the U ...

What is a recession? What are the key indicators of a recession? How do government and central banks respond to recessions? What are the causes of recessions? How can individuals and businesses ...

Roughly a week ago (Friday, May 2), both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrials reached a milestone that has not occurred for more than 20 years. That milestone: nine consecutive sessions of higher ...

For its latest quarterly release, the report from the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center shows the leading indicators for the farm sector’s financial health all show elevated risk. The ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

Coming off a dormant Monday, where Wall Street was closed for MLK’s birthday, we’re surprisingly active with things to discuss this morning. Q4 earnings season has yet to hit a high gear but moves ...

The EPB Four Economy Framework helps track the Business Cycle by focusing on sector sequences, with the Leading Economy offering early signals of future shifts. Leading indicators like real money ...

Katherine Watt is a former CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa ...