The Conference Board’s Leading Indicators Index (or LEI) report for the month of March, will be released on Monday, April 21. About the Conference Board’s Leading Indicator Index The Conference ...

Where is this economy going? Honestly, we don’t know. Economists don’t know. The stock market — we say it all the time here— is not the economy, and it doesn’t know, either. Hard economic data about ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the US declined by 0.5% in August 2025 to 98.4 (2016=100), after a small 0.1% increase in July (upwardly ...

The Conference Board is moving its New York City office a block north in Midtown East. The global nonprofit, a member-driven think tank that provides business insights to industry executives, has ...

There are a lot of feelings and opinions out there about how the economy’s doing. Then there are data points, a little more objective and up to date, that sometimes tell us a bit about where it’s ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Leading Economic Index(R) (LEI) for the US declined by 0.3% in November 2025 to 97.9 (2016=100), after declining by 0.1% in October to 98.2 ...

About the author: Paul Washington is the executive director of the Conference Board ESG Center and is former corporate secretary of Time Warner. He is the co-author of the report , “The Roles of the ...

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for China decreased by 0.3% in January 2026 to 144.9 (2016=100), after remaining unchanged in December. As a result, the LEI contracted by 1.8% over ...

Confidence among consumers fell this month as worries about slowing income gains and the cooling job market clouded their current and future outlook on the economy, The Conference Board said Tuesday.

Trade tensions with the U.S. will likely mean a painful next few months for workers and the economy but could be short-lived, the Conference Board of Canada said in its latest outlook. Canada could ...