Economic indicators are pieces or sets of macroeconomic data that are indicative of the past, present, or future state of the economy or some part of it. Even outside of the realm of finance, the ...

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 ...

Some types of businesses aren't affected much by economic cycles. The stocks of these companies are non-cyclical and are known as defensive stocks or recession-proof investments. They tend to ...