Discover leading, coincident, and lagging business cycle indicators to predict economic trends, using insights from the Conference Board.

Over the past several months, we have seen turmoil in the markets as technology company stocks have been hit with significant price decreases. We have seen a large number of layoffs in high-tech ...

There are different investment approaches to identify sector winners and losers, such as price momentum strategies, top-down approach based on specific macroeconomic indicators or bottom-up approaches ...

Investing strategies often evolve with market cycles, and one approach gaining traction is business cycle investing. This strategy seeks to align investments with the various phases of the economic ...

Every city, organization and business has something in common: a defined life cycle. Take New Orleans, for example. US Route 90—a segment of the Ponchartrain expressway—cuts through the heart of New ...

The banking industry performed exceptionally well during the strong economic expansion of the past five years. Strong demand for loans and banking services and the strong supply of quality customers ...

Consumer spending is a coincident-to-lagging indicator, not a leading one, so it’s a poor tool for forecasting the business cycle. Durable goods consumption is the most cyclical and informative ...

Discover how the underwriting cycle impacts insurance markets, its stages, and effective management strategies to navigate ...

We explore the role of sectoral debt dynamics in shaping business cycles in a sample of 52 Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and Frontier Market Economies (FMEs) from 2005 to 2021. Higher household ...