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Global Business Cycle Indicators

The Conference Board publishes leading, coincident, and lagging indexes designed to signal peaks and troughs in the business cycle for major economies around the world.

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Leading Economic Indicators

Country/Region	Change	Date
Australia	0.3%	23 Apr. 2018
Brazil	0.3%	17 Apr. 2018
China	1.1%	23 Mar. 2018
Euro Area	0.6%	26 Mar. 2018
France	0.1%	18 Apr. 2018
Germany	0.1%	13 Apr. 2018
Global	0.9%	29 Mar. 2018
India	0.7%	20 Apr. 2018
Japan	0.1%	06 Apr. 2018
Korea	0.6%	10 Apr. 2018
Mexico	0.2%	13 Apr. 2018
Spain	0.9%	12 Apr. 2018
U.K.	0.4%	16 Apr. 2018
U.S.	0.3%	19 Apr. 2018

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Leading Economic Indicators

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