Newsflow Indicators

You don't have to shout or leap about
You can even play them easy
--Ringo Starr

Hadn't seen these 'newsflow' indicators before. Suggestion is that they tend to be leading indicators (~ 3 months), ahead of such measures as production and other economic strength metrics.

Somewhat counter intuitive in that we often speak of media headlines as being contrarian indicators of general sentiment (e.g., cover story indicators). We don't know the method used for these newsflow indicators, however. If it employs some sort of content analysis over many daily articles, then there may be some merit.

The data suggest that an 'economic rough patch' (thx Elmer) lurks ahead.

Another data point...