Economic indicators include various indices, earnings reports, and economic summaries, such as unemployment, housing starts[?], Consumer Price Index (a measure for inflation), industrial production[?], bankruptcies, Gross Domestic Product, retail sales[?], stock market prices, and money supply changes.
A leading economic indicator is an economic indicator which tends to change before and in the same direction as the general economic activity, whereas a lagging economic indicator tails behind.
Timeline of U.S. economic indicators
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