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What does it Mean? A not-for-profit research organization for businesses that distributes information about management and the marketplace. It is a widely quoted private source of business intelligence.

Investopedia Says... The Conference Board connects some 2,000 companies via forums and peer-to-peer meetings to discuss what matters to companies today: issues such as top-line growth in a shifting economic environment and corporate governance standards. However, the Conference Board is best known for it's widely followed economic indicators, particularly the Consumer Confidence Index.

Terms Related Links

Consumer Confidence Index - CCI
Corporate Governance
Expectations Index
Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index -MCSI
Present Situation Index

Terms Related Links
The Conference Board - The official website of the organization that publishes the CCI and other economic and business research.

Understanding the Consumer Confidence Index - We look at what this closely watched economic indicator means and how it is calculated.

Economic Indicators: Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) - The Consumer Confidence Index is a unique indicator designed to gauge the relative financial health, spending power and confidence of the average consumer.

Consumer Confidence: A Killer Statistic - It's the one key to any market economy, so investors need to learn the measures and how to analyze them.

The Conference Board

The Conference Board is a non-profit global business organization supported by business executives that holds conferences and conducts business management research. It connects more than 1600 corporations in nearly 60 nations. Its worldwide conferences attract more than 12,000 senior executives each year. These conferences bring together authorities on a wide variety of economic and management issues. More than 150 chief executive officers address Conference Board events each year. Conference Board meetings have been independently rated as one of America’s top speaking platforms. The Conference Board also sponsors and manages more than 100 worldwide management councils, attracting senior executives from virtually every business discipline.

The organization was founded in 1916 as the National Industrial Conference Board.

It grew from a 1915 meeting at the Yama Farms Inn in New York consisting of presidents of 12 major corporations and six of the foremost industry associations. The gathering included Frederick P. Fish and Magnus W. Alexander, who would become the organization’s chairman and executive secretary. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss "the causes of the increasing strife between employers and their employees and the effect of the rapidly multiplying amount of restrictive labor and social legislation on the conduct of business . . . in order that a proper course of future action might be determined upon, alike beneficial to employers and employees and subservient to the welfare of the nation."