Evidence that the financial turmoil in the United States and Europe is beginning to depress activity, not only in the developed world, but in the emerging economies as well, appears in reports of second quarter GDP. Increasingly these [...]
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Global| Aug 16 2011Global Slowdown
- Global| Aug 15 2011
Japan's Q2 GDP Surprises On The Up Side
Although Japanese Gross Domestic Product declined at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.3% in the second quarter, the decline was less than expected. Government expenditures on consumption and investment were positive factors and [...]
- Global| Aug 09 2011
Haver's INTDAILY Database and the Current Financial Crisis
The Haver Database INTDAILY contains much of the data needed to portray many of the aspects of the current financial crisis. Interest rate spreads can be calculated from the interest rate data. We have calculated the spreads between [...]
- Global| Aug 08 2011
Economy Watchers in Japan Show Concern for the Future
Japan's Economy Watchers were a bit less optimistic about future conditions in July than they were in June. The diffusion index that expresses their judgment on future conditions dropped 0.5 points from 49.0 in June to 48.5 in July. [...]
- Global| Aug 02 2011
New Data For Analyzing The Swedish Economy
The Riksbank Macro Indicators that the Bank uses in its conduct of monetary policy have been added to NORDIC, as noted in the July Haver Analytic News. The Riksbank attempts to stabilize inflation around targeted rate and production [...]
- Global| Aug 01 2011
Japanese Motor Vehicle Industry Recovering
The Japanese motor vehicle industry, which had suffered from supply chain disruptions and power shortage problems following the March earthquake and tsunami disasters is beginning to show progress. Production of motor vehicles fell [...]
- Global| Jul 26 2011
German Consumer Climate Slightly Cooler
The German GfK Consumer Climate Study for July, 2011 revealed substantial declines in both income and economic expectations. The balance of opinion regarding income expectations declined 10 percentage points to 34.6% in July from [...]
- Global| Jul 25 2011
World Trade Data In Haver Data Bases
The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, (CPB) complies the most up to date data on world trade. The latest data, in the form of indexes with a base year of 2000 are for May and were published today. The volume of world [...]
- Global| Jul 19 2011
German Financial Community Lowers Expectation for the Next Six Months
The financial community in Germany represented by 288 institutional investors and analysts in the ZEW July survey has become more guarded in its expectations of macroeconomic developments over the next six months as the excess of [...]
- Global| Jul 12 2011
The Debt Crisis in the Euro-Area and Haver Data
The debt crisis in the Euro Area widened yesterday. While interest rates in the smaller troubled spots, Greece, Portugal and Ireland, which were already very high, rose slightly, interest rates in Italy and Spain spiked. Italy is the [...]
- Global| Jul 11 2011
China/US Trade Balance at Record High in June
The balance of trade in Chinese goods with the United States was $17.9 billion in June, the highest monthly value on record. Chinese exports to the U.S. rose 5.1% from $25.8 billion in May to $27.1 billion in June while imports [...]
- Global| Jun 28 2011
Valuing Stock Markets: The Equitization Ratio A Variation of Tobin's Q
The Equitization Ratio, the ratio of the market capitalization of a country to its gross domestic product has become a popular measure of stock market valuations. Warren Buffet is quoted as saying "this ratio is probably the best [...]
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