GDP measures economic size; CPI and PPI gauge goods costs impacting buying power and production costs. Leading indicators like housing starts predict economic trends, lagging ones like unemployment ...

Understanding the state of the economy can help investors make decisions Reviewed by Robert C. Kelly Fact checked by Michael Rosenston The state of the overall economy can provide insight to investors ...

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, ...