The LEI crunches together 10 key data points, including manufacturing orders, jobless claims, consumer confidence and stocks.

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"Uncertainty around the economic outlook has increased." Federal Reserve officials inserted that sentence into their latest statement on the economy, and it really says it all. They don't know how ...

The hard data still points to a strong economy. But "soft" data — like consumer confidence readings — paints a different ...

DOGE’s first batch of published savings was riddled with errors, with experts pointing out that the math wasn’t adding up in ...