Economic Indicators
This section provides a general guide to leading indicators (data with predictive value).
Click below for lists and explanations of some of the more significant leading indicators from the US, UK and Japan.
US indicators
- Advanced Retail Sales
- Beige Book
- Consumer Confidence
- Consumer Price Index
- Durable Goods Orders
- Empire State Manufacturing Survey
- Employment Cost Index
- Employment Situation (Non-farm Payrolls and Unemployment)
- FOMC Policy Announcements
- Gross Domestic Product
- Housing Starts
- Industrial Production
- ISM Manufacturing Index
- Jobless Claims
- New Home Sales
- Philly Fed Index
- Producer Price Index
- Purchasing Managers' Index
- University of Michigan Sentiment
- Wholesale Trade
UK indicators
- BOE Rate Announcements
- CPI
- Current Account
- GDP
- Nationwide Consumer Confidence
- NIESR
- Trade Balance
- Unemployment Rate
Eurozone indicators
- ECB Rate Announcements
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Construction Output
- Bloomberg Retail PMI
- Construction Production Index
- Consumer Confidence
- Current Account
- Gross Domestic Product
- Industrial New Orders
- Industrial Production
- M3 Money Supply
- OECD Leading Indicator
- PMI Services
- PMI Manufacturing
- Producer Price Index
- Retail Sales
- Trade Balance
- Unemployment Rate
- Zew Survey of Economic Sentiment
- Economic Confidence
- Household Consumption
- Industrial Confidence
- Labour Costs
- New Car Registrations
Australian indicators
- Current Account
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Gross Domestic Product
- Labour Force Survey
- RBA Rate Decision
Japanese indicators
- Consumer Price Index
- Gross Domestic Product
- Industrial Production Index
- Machinery Orders
- Money Supply
- Retail Sales
- Tankan Index
- Wholesale Price Index