Get news, videos, commentary and reports involving discussions around recession and related topics. By Steven Hansen : On Friday on CNBC , ECRI renewed their recession call - now saying a recession should hit by mid-year 2012. Supporting evidence for this call was based on coincident data's growth rate-of-change was falling to historical recession levels. There is no current data in my world that ... By Erik McCurdy : Last week, Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) made the rounds on financial television to discuss the current state of their recession call from late last year . Achuthan essentially reaffirmed their belief that a return to economic contraction is ... By Kirk Lindstrom: On Friday, October 26, 2012, the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), a New York-based independent forecasting group, released its latest readings for its proprietary Weekly Leading Index (WLI). In the latest release, ECRI's WLI rose and its growth rate fell. Despite the ... By Doug Short : The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) rose slightly in the latest public data. It is now at 126.3, up from 125.4 in the previous week. See the WLI chart in the Appendix below. The WLI annualized growth indicator (WLIg) declined to 3.4, down ... By Doug Short : The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) rose slightly in the latest public data. It is now at 126.8, up from an upwardly revised 126.2 in the previous week. See the WLI chart in the Appendix below. The WLI annualized growth indicator (WLIg) ... The ECRI Weekly Leading Index rises to 124.9 for the week ended Sept 7 from 124.1 previously (revised from 123.7). The annual growth rate rises to 2.1% from 1.4%. It's the highest level since August 2011 and one wonders if Lakshman Achuthan is pulling his recession call. 1 comment! By Kirk Lindstrom: On Friday, August 17, 2012, the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), a New York-based independent forecasting group, released its latest readings for its proprietary Weekly Leading Index (WLI). In the latest release, ECRI's WLI rose to a four-week high while its growth rate ... The ECRI Weekly Leading Index declines to 126.3 from a revised 126.6 last week, but the annualized growth rate jumps to 4.7% from 3.8%. It's the highest level for the growth rate since June 2011. The group's future inflation gauge leaped to an 18-month high of 103.4 from 100.6. 2 comments! By Kirk Lindstrom: The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), a New York-based independent forecasting group, released its latest readings for its proprietary Weekly Leading Index (WLI) yesterday. For the week ending March 23, 2012: WLI is at 125.9, up 0.5 from the prior week's revised reading ... By Parsimony Investment Research : Confusion Among Leading Indicators Economic Cycle Research Institute ("ECRI") chief Lakshman Achuthan recently took some heat from CNBC hosts on the ECRI’s vocal recession call. Detractors have focused on increases in equity market prices and mixed economic ...