economic indicators

1. Series of statistical figures, such as the consumer price index or the gross domestic product, used by economists to predict future economic activity.

Example Sentences

Especially when many national economic indicators aren’t exactly rosy, when we have not seen the promised decrease in the price of groceries and consumer goods, and when the labor statistics were so embarrassing he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and replaced her with another one, only to see more grim jobs numbers a month later.

From Los Angeles Times

Negligible impact or not, the increasingly hazy economic indicators make Jerome Powell’s job all the more difficult.

From Slate

But financial analysts have warned that they are contributing to worries in financial markets, hurting consumer sentiment and fuelling weakness across a range of other economic indicators.

From BBC

Other economic indicators, including low unemployment and lower inflation in recent months, suggest a healthy economy.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump and Vance harp about a doomed economy because they need the economy to be doomed, but economic indicators aren’t cooperating with their spin.

From Salon