Investors can use leading indicators, such as cardboard box production, to improve their forward-looking estimates of the economy’s performance. Other related measures often used by investors ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The packaging industry will never quicken pulses, but the pandemic has wrought an improbable transformation ...

The US is in a "cardboard box recession," and it could mean the ... The five-year, five-year forward rate, an estimate of the five-year inflation rate five years from now, dropped to 2.23% this ...

The cardboard boxes will be their home overnight. Leslie Frost is executive director of Families Moving Forward [www.familiesmoving forward.org], a non-profit that provides emergency shelter to people ...