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lagging economic indicator

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lagging economic indicator
An economic or a financial variable, the movements of which tend to follow the movement of overall economic activity. Thus, a lagging economic indicator would reach a peak after a peak in economic activity and would hit bottom after a bottom in economic activity. Compare leading economic indicator.
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Real estate is a lagging economic indicator, and it follows the job market, which has been weak for
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Foreclosure activity is actually a lagging economic indicator because it signals financial distress up to a year old.
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California leads the nation in bank failures because they typically are a lagging economic indicator, he said.
Bank failures growing in California even as they slow down nationwide by Mullen, Liz / Los Angeles Business Journal
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