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Recessions
4 guides in Finabase Learn
- How the economy affects stocks: growth, inflation, jobs and rates How GDP, inflation, jobs and interest rates feed into company earnings and discount rates, why stocks move before the economy does, and where the link breaks.
- Leading, lagging and coincident indicators: what turns first Which economic indicators turn before, with and after the business cycle, what the Conference Board indexes hold, and how claims and permits behaved in 2001 and 2008.
- The business cycle: expansions, peaks, recessions and troughs What the business cycle is, its four phases, how long US expansions and recessions have lasted since 1945, what tends to end them, and how unemployment tracks the cycle.
- What is a recession? How the NBER dates US recessions How the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee decides when US recessions start and end, why “two negative quarters” is not the rule, and what 2001 and 2022 show.
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