NEW YORK (AP) — A private research group forecast that the economy will grow slowly in the second half of the year because of the support it's gotten from the Federal Reserve.
The Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.5 percent in July. The index had risen 0.3 percent in June.
This summer's readings suggest that the economy won't pick up enough this year for the jobless rate to drop much. The small moves higher however indicate that the country likely won't fall back into recession, as some economists fear.
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