economic forecasts
Financial future guesses
Economic forecasts are predictions about future economic conditions—growth rates, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and similar indicators.
Governments, central banks, and businesses use them to guide policy and planning decisions.
The forecasts rely on models, historical data, and assumptions that may prove wrong: The economic forecast predicted mild recession, but growth surprised everyone.
- interest ratesPrice paid for borrowing
- Fed policyCentral bank economic strategy
- currency fluctuationsVariations in money's worth
- GDP growthOutput increase percentage
- economic outlookExpected future market conditions
consumer spending · jobs report · policy-making · leading indicators · fiscal deficit · inflation rate · boom and bust · demographic shifts · unemployment rate · econometrics · number crunching · confidence intervals · trade balance · housing market · trade deficits · risk management · market trends · markets
- Business Newsearnings report, market reports, quarterly results, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg
- economic dataGDP, CPI, PPI, inflation rates, inflation rate
- government documentswhite paper, laws, federal records, gazette, constitutions
- official documentsbirth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, passport, driver's license
- Global Economicsfree trade, economic development, trade pacts, economic growth, trade blocs
- business datafinancial data, business intelligence, market research, company profiles, market trends
economic forecastseconomic history
Analysis of past material conditions
historical data · post-mortems · audit reports · annual reports · historical accounts