Sentences with phrase «lagging of economic indicators»

Keep in mind that labor is the most lagging of economic indicators.

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Still, investors continued the habit of confusing lagging and coincident indicators for leading ones, so the positive GDP figure was taken as evidence that an oncoming economic downturn was «off the table.»

The ratio of coincident - to - lagging indicators is often considered to be a leading indicator of economic activity.

The Index of Lagging Economic Indicators ticked 0.1 % higher (2.4 % y / y) last month following a 0.3 % October rise, revised from 0.2 %.

[That claim itself, of course, is wildly at odds with the statistical record, as confirmed by Unifor's recent report. We compiled historical data on 16 conventional economic indicators going back to 1946, and found that Canada's economy performed worse under Harper's leadership than any other postwar Prime Minister — and lagged most OECD countries during Harper's tenure, as well.

On the economic front, I believe that the most consistent interpretation of the data is that of an economy that is generally deteriorating, but where the weakness in leading indicators hasn't filtered through to the most lagging ones.

Now, the slowdown in money supply growth and the bank credit flattening of the yield curve will occur well before there is any noticeable impact on a broad array of economic indicators or long lags in monetary policy.

Therefore, when applied to the world of Forex trading, this tendency drives traders to read every economic release and try to analyze its market implications, as well as place numerous lagging indicators on their price acton charts.

Unfortunately for these investors these lagging indicators are simply providing facts about the past; while the stock market moves based upon the future prospects of economic and business cycles.

While Africa's rapid economic growth holds promise, sub-Saharan Africa lags behind the world, and particularly the rest of the developing world, in terms of basic indicators like infant morality, maternal mortality, literacy, and access to health care.

Disadvantaged children tend to fall behind before their second birthday: Children whose families lack economic and educational resources — those who are in the lowest socio - economic group, who live in poverty, whose parents have less education, or whose mothers are not employed — tend to lag behind their peers who have more of these resources in developing language skills, early math, and social - emotional indicators by age 2.

Because retail real estate statistics tend to lag behind general economic indicators, retail center owners have so far avoided feeling the brunt of the pain from the massive drop - off in consumer spending, according to Joel Bloomer, an analyst with Morningstar.

Overall housing and economic activity in metro markets across the nation remained on a gradual, upward trend in the fourth quarter of 2017 even as permit activity remained a stubbornly lagging indicator, according to the NAHB / First American Leading Markets Index (LMI) released today.