Although GDP is the broadest measure of economic activity, other indicators of economic performance suggest that the economy continued to recover in the fourth quarter, despite the impact of Hurricane Sandy and uncertainty surrounding fiscal issues.
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Imaging studies, body activity, sleep and other indicators reveal more and more clues.
Prospects for boosting sales to the continent are not exhilarating: recent indicators of manufacturing activity point to a slowdown there.
The bright spot in the report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia was that indicators of future activity actually improved.
That bit of good news as indicators from general activity, new orders, shipments, and employment suggested that declines this month were more broad-based than in January.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, durable goods orders, the Chicago Fed national activity index, leading economic indicators and new residential sales.
OK, for most investors the BMW gauge or wine auction activity will never replace traditional economic indicators like housing starts or new orders for durable goods.
Using highly detailed information on new business owners by the month, the Kauffman Index gives analysts an important perspective on certain crucial demographic nuances of entrepreneurial activity that are unavailable with other indicators.
It has a lot to do with the recent performance of the stock market, a pretty good measure of sentiment as well as one of the better leading indicators of real economic activity.
These benefits include short-term gains in the emotional or cognitive development of the child, improvements in educational outcomes, reduced levels of criminal activity, and improvements in health-related indicators, such as child abuse.
The leading indicators of the economy are measurements of consumer activity, obvious since consumer spending accounts for 65% of the U.S. economy.
Short term indicators such as industrial production and business surveys suggest that Indian economic activity has remained weak in recent months.
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It is one of the most important indicators of the SNA that displays the final result of the production activity both in material production and non-material services.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the flash U.S. manufacturing PMI, leading economic indicators, the weekly DOE energy stocks report and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing activity report.
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The Federal Reserve sees economic activity continuing to increase since its previous survey, according to its monthly anecdotal collection of economic indicators known as the Beige Book.
This one, for example, from the OECD, shows how a composite of leading indicators - the red line - often move about six months before another measure of real economic activity.
The adoption of universal indicators on quality physical education and sport and an economic analysis about the valuable contributions that physical activity and sport make to social and economic development will be considered by this Commission.
The indicators are designed to provide early signals of turning points between the expansion and slowdown of economic activity, and are based on a wide variety of data series that have a history of signaling changes in economic activity.
It goes without saying that one of the best indicators of when to enter or exit a position on a stock has always been by monitoring the activity of insiders, so why should Whole Foods be the exception?
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