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• lagging indicators — Market indicators showing the general direction of the economy and confirming or denying the trend implied by the leading indicators. Also referred to as concurrent indicators. Chicago Board of Trade glossary economic indicators that follow… …   Financial and business terms

• Composite Index Of Lagging Indicators — An index published monthly by the Conference Board that is used to confirm the direction of the economy s movements in past months. The index is made up of the following seven economic components, whose changes tend to come after changes in the… …   Investment dictionary

• Lagging indicator — A lagging indicator is an economic indicator that reacts slowly to economic changes, and therefore has little predictive value. Generally these types of indicators follow an event; they are historical in nature. For example, in a performance… …   Wikipedia

• Lagging Indicator — 1. A measurable economic factor that changes after the economy has already begun to follow a particular pattern or trend. 2. A technical indicator that trails the price action of an underlying asset, and is used by traders to generate transaction …   Investment dictionary

• lagging indicator — / lægɪŋ ˌɪndɪkeɪtə/ noun an indicator (such as the gross national product) which shows a change in economic trends later than other indicators (NOTE: The opposite is leading indicator.) …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• economic indicators — The key statistics of the economy that reveal the direction the economy is heading in; for example, the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * *    Published data that provide information on the state of an… …   Financial and business terms

• leading indicators — Market indicators that signal the state of the economy for the coming months. Some of the leading indicators include: average manufacturing workweek, initial claims for unemployment insurance, orders for consumer goods and material, percentage of …   Financial and business terms

• coincident indicators — economic indicators that give an indication of the current status of the economy. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * *    Coincident economic indicators measure economic factors that change at the same time as the overall economic cycle. They… …   Financial and business terms

• Business Cycle Indicators - BCI — Composite of leading, lagging and coincident indexes created by the Conference Board and used to forecast changes in the direction of the overall economy of a country. They can be used to confirm or predict the peaks and troughs of the business… …   Investment dictionary

• «Запаздывающие» индикаторы — (LAGGING INDICATORS) показатели, изменяющиеся в соответствии с экономической ситуацией с некоторым временным запаздыванием …   Финансовый глоссарий

• Economic indicator — Economics …   Wikipedia