{"id":4857,"date":"2026-02-19T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:40:00","slug":"u-s-leading-indicators-forecast-slow-start-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=4857","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Leading Indicators Forecast Slow Start to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-30933090\" \/><br \/>The Leading Economic Index, or LEI, published by research group The Conference Board, fell by 0.2% in December to 97.6, after falling 0.3% in November and a downwardly revised 0.2% decline in October.<br \/>\n2026-02-19 15:40:00<br \/>\nDon Nico Forbes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leading Economic Index, or LEI, published by research group The Conference Board, fell by 0.2% in December to 97.6, after falling 0.3% in November and a downwardly revised 0.2% decline in October. 2026-02-19 15:40:00 Don Nico Forbes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}