A key gauge of future U.S. economic activity, the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index, plunged 0.7% in March, marking its steepest monthly decline since late 2023 and exceeding economists ...

US Steel’s possible end underscores the shift in the nation’s economy away from manufacturing, a change that continues to have deep economic ... of the nation’s leading steel companies ...

The index of leading economic indicators, released by the business research group Thursday, decreased by 0.8% in October. This brings the index down to 99.6, from 100.4 in September. "It's down ...

The numbers: The leading index for the U.S. economy sank again in May, declining for the third month in a row, but it “doesn’t currently signal a recession,” the Conference Board said.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- An index of economic indicators rose in July for a fourth straight month, in another sign that the recession is bottoming, said a report released Thursday. The Leading ...

The latest Conference Board Leading Economic Index decreased in June to its lowest level since April 2020. The LEI is a composite index of several indicators. It is a predictive variable that ...

This article highlights two indicators from the past week -- existing home sales, and the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index (LEI). Examining these data points provides valuable ...

An economic index that measures business trends increased in October as impacts from a string of catastrophic hurricanes dissipated. The Conference Board Leading Economic Index rose 1.2% to 130.4 ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Conference Board's leading economic index for the euro area rose 0.2% in March to 92.4. Positive contributions from the interest rate spread and the business ...

The Composite Index of Leading Indicators, or Leading Economic Index (LEI), is a monthly index published by The Conference Board that combines ten economic components to predict the direction of ...

The Conference Board’s latest Leading Economic Index, which pulls a bunch of data points together to try to predict where the economy is going, was down by 0.3% in February — the third ...