BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Lagging Indicator
- a measurable economic factor, for example, corporate profits or unemployment, that changes after the economy has already moved to a new trend, which it can confirm but not predict
Additional Resources
- TED Spread: A Lagging Stock Market Indicator
- Michael Stokes submits: [This week I’m focusing on the TED spread and what it can tell us about the stock market. If you're not familiar with the TED spread, you can read more about it here.] In this report, I’ll look at the TED spread as a lagging indicator (or...
- External links 2008-11-06
- Leading vs. Lagging, Bull vs. Bear, Short vs. Long: Thoughts on the Market
- J Clinton Hill submits: In last Friday’s Market Condition Summary report, I posted comments regarding whether this was a bull or bear market and the disturbing nature of a lagging economic indicator, i.e. Employment Situation report. I promised to post additional thoughts on this and after turning it over and...
- External links 2009-04-07
- 51jobs Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We will take our first question from Jason Brueschke from Citi. Jason Brueschke - Citigroup Thank you. Good morning, Rick, Peter, Kathleen, and Linda. Let me maybe start with a couple of questions on the outlook -- Rick, first of all, you have...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-11
- U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from the line of Larry Solow with CJS Securities. Larry Solow – CJS Securities Hi, good morning guys. Chris Reading Good morning, Larry, Larry Solow – CJS Securities Can you – did you see any change in trend at all may be...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-24
- One Day Away from Retesting 52-Week Lows
- Dr. Duru submits: This economy is truly President Obama's mess now. The market greeted Obama with its worst showing ever for an inauguration day I also heard that inauguration days tend to be down days anyway. While Main Street partied like the 1990s, Wall Street sulked like the...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Assurant, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Your first question comes from John Nadel. John Nadel – Sterne, Agee & Leach Hi, good morning everybody. Rob Pollock Good morning, John. John Nadel – Sterne, Agee & Leach So, a couple of questions for you. I think – thinking about Specialty property, we...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-05
- Chart of the Day: Stocks vs. Unemployment
- Felix Salmon submits: Received opinion has it that stock prices are a leading indicator of economic conditions — they price in expected future events — while the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator, since it reflects the outcome of decisions made in the past, and businesses only...
- External links 2009-05-25
- Unemployment Headline Is Negative, but Take a Look at Those Leading Indicators
- The full-month employment report for June was not attractive - June produced a net loss of 467,000 jobs, much higher than in May, and well above even the pessimistic forecasts. The unemployment rate rose as well, to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in May. But these measures are all trailing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Seeing the Big Picture
- REITs have outperformed over the past 20 years, but will broader market, demographic and economic factors allow those results to hold over the next two decades? There is a cyclical nature and long-term strategy with investing in real estate stocks that investors can lose sight of when company performance dips...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- It's the People, Stupid
- It's a line employees and union leaders have touted for years: Happy employees make for more profitable companies. Now there seems to be more data to back it up. Watson Wyatt Worldwide, the benefits consulting firm, says it has evidence to support the idea that improvements in human-capital practices (in...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Hedge Fund Tracking: Tremblant Capital
- Market Folly submits: Four times a year, hedge funds & asset managers with > $100 million AUM assets under management are required to report to the SEC their holdings from the previous quarter. I check these 13F filings quarterly just to get a sense as to where these funds are...
- External links 2008-08-14
- Hedge Fund Tracking: Clarium Capital
- Market Folly submits: Four times a year, hedge funds & asset managers with > $100 million AUM assets under management are required to report to the SEC their holdings from the previous quarter. I check these 13F filings quarterly just to get a sense as to where these funds are...
- External links 2008-08-18
- Hedge Fund Tracking: Blue Ridge Capital (John Griffin)
- Market Folly submits: Four times a year, hedge funds & asset managers with > $100 million AUM assets under management are required to report to the SEC their holdings from the previous quarter. I check these 13F filings quarterly just to get a sense as to where these funds are...
- External links 2008-08-19
- Hedge Fund Tracking: Lone Pine Capital (Steven Mandel)
- Market Folly submits: Four times a year, hedge funds & asset managers with > $100 million AUM assets under management are required to report to the SEC their holdings from the previous quarter. I check these 13F filings quarterly just to get a sense as to where these funds are...
- External links 2008-08-21
- U.S. In Recession? Not So Fast!
- Ockham Research submits: The conventional wisdom that the U.S. economy is in recession as defined by two or more consecutive quarters of negative GDP and future GDP revisions would bear this fact out, took it on the chin this morning with the latest revision to second quarter GDP. The...
- External links 2008-08-29
- TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation F3Q08 (Qtr End 06/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Richard Repetto - Sandler O'Neill Richard Repetto - Sandler O'Neill On the retail engagement activity the 11% up in July and I know you mentioned the tools and why you think AMERITRADE but the industry...
- Earnings calls 2008-07-17
- CA, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 03/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Sarah Friar - Goldman Sachs. Sarah Friar – Goldman Sachs First, given that the bookings have been growing here in the mid-teens, it seems like the revenue guides are still a little conservative, that should just flow straight...
- Earnings calls 2008-05-22
- Housing market may be fading.(Business Today)
- WASHINGTON -- Raising a caution flag and suggesting that the bull market in housing may be losing some steam, housing sales turned broadly weaker during November, with both sales of existing and new homes heading lower. But housing starts, which tend...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- Redefining productivity, Soviet-style
- In his September 9th column, New York Post economics writer John Crudele addresses a puzzling economic anomaly--the ongoing "jobless recovery." Job losses continue, despite a resurgent stock market and reports of robust growth in the Gross Domestic Product. According to Bush administration shills like Rush Limbaugh, job growth is always...
- Research articles 2003-10-06
- Philippines lagging behind the Asian recovery
- While there is a consensus that political instability in the Philippines has adversely affected the country's economy not all of what is happening in this important Southeast Asian economy can be attributed to political events. A look at the graph above shows the country's Leading Economic Indicator LEI...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
