Lagging indicators

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Lagging indicators

Economic indicators that follow rather than precede the country's overall pace of economic activity. See also: Leading indicators and coincident indicators.

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The lagging indicators such as employment figures and spending on capital equipment have also started to rise off their cyclical bottoms, and they too will now start to contribute to the recovery.

Profit outlook improves for processors by Wood, Bill / Plastics Technology

Maybe such skittishness is a residue of the war, another one of those lagging indicators, but the economists at UCLA's Anderson School have been similarly skeptical about a big-time turnaround and those folks are not often wrong.

Time for blinders. (Comment) by Lacter, Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal

Managing the financials will not necessarily produce better financial results, because financials only tell you where you have been--they are lagging indicators.

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