The Daily Business Index DBI is a weighted daily score (0–100, neutral at 50) combining equity markets (40%), inflation & costs (20%), manufacturing activity (15%), small business sentiment (15%), and consumer spending (10%).
Oil is climbing, tensions with Iran are climbing, and yet the number everyone tracks just climbed too. Here's the story markets aren't telling straight.
Fresh strikes near a critical shipping lane sent oil higher and rattled global markets on Monday, while a blockbuster chip debut turned sour just days after its big moment. Here's what it means for the day ahead.
Wall Street shrugged off another weekend of Middle East strikes — but a Kuwaiti oil platform hit and a hobbling Chinese market tell a messier story underneath.
The Dow just did something it's never done before, oil is cheap again, and one part of the picture is quietly getting healthier. Here's what's really going on underneath the record highs.
Factories across four continents reported in on the same morning oil kept sinking toward multi-month lows. The number that resulted split the difference.
Peace deal signed, chips are flying, and the business world just exhaled — the index had its biggest single-day swing in weeks. One story drove everything.
The peace rally paused — but the real story is what's happening in central bank rooms from Tokyo to Washington. Two very different signals, one very watchful market.
