Economic indicators are used by investors to calculate the future condition of the economy but which ones are the most useful?
For anyone seeking broad indicators as to the future direction of equity markets, there is certainly no lack of economic information available from expert organisations around the world. At the end of July for example, global research network The Conference Board announced that the US leading index, an amalgamation of leading economic indicators, increased 0.3% in June ' which analysts took to be the result of persistent rate cutting by the Federal Reserve. In the UK meanwhile, analysts were waiting for the Office of National Statistics to produce preliminary estimates for economic gro...
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