Business confidence in manufacturing in the Netherlands is measured by the difference between those who see improvement and those who see deterioration in the outlook. Until the recession of 2008, the difference had never been more [...]
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Global| Jun 27 2011Business Confidence In The Netherlands Continues To Weaken In June
- Global| Jun 21 2011
German Investors Reconsider The Outlook
German institutional investors and analysts have become more cautious regarding economic prospects over the next six months. The ZEW (Center for Economic Research in Mannheim) reported today that its indicator of economic sentiment [...]
- Global| Jun 20 2011
Japanese Foreign Trade: Slow to Recover
Recent evidence suggests that the Japanese recovery from the disastrous March earthquake and tsunami is likely to be slower than originally thought due in large part to the problems at the nuclear plants. Japan's trade balance for [...]
- Global| Jun 14 2011
China Continues to Surprise
The boom in China is not about to bust. The weakness in China's industrial production and retail sales evident in April was reversed in May. After declining 0.57% in April from March, industrial production rose 0.53% in May from [...]
- Global| Jun 13 2011
Decline in Japanese Private Sector Machinery Orders: Trouble for the Capital Goods Sector?
The Economic and Social Research Institute of Japan released, today, data on machinery orders for April. Although total orders were up 3.1% from March, the HEADLINE series--Private Sector Orders excluding Volatile Orders (ships and [...]
- Global| Jun 06 2011
More Good News For German Economy: E.Coli a Cloud on the Horizon?
German new orders for manufacturing rose 2.4% in April to 121.5 (2005=100) from 119.0 in March. They almost made up for the 2.5% decline in March and are now only 6% below the pre recession peak of 129.5 reached in November, 2007. [...]
- Global| Jun 06 2011
The Price of Wheat and EFTs
Although there is some improvement in the world wide supply of wheat, the price has begun to creep up again, Kansas city hard wheat, for example, has risen 5% in the last month and is now $9.06 a bushel. World supply and demand for [...]
- Global| May 31 2011
New Zealand: Business Confidence Up, Trade Balance Up, Dollar Strong
New Zealand businessmen have recovered most of the confidence they lost in March as a result of the February Earthquake in Christ Church. According to the National Bank of New Zealand's business confidence survey, the optimists on the [...]
- Global| May 24 2011
German Businessmen Join Investors And Purchasing Managers In Concern For Short Term Outlook
Recently, we've noted that investors and purchasing managers in Germany have begun to lower their expectations for the growth of the economy over the next six months. It appears that it is not so much that they expect a sharp fall in [...]
- Global| May 23 2011
Purchasing Managers See Slowdown In Economic Activity In 2Q-11 In China And Euro Area
Markit Economics released, today, the flash estimates derived from their May surveys of purchasing managers in China, France, Germany and the Euros Area, as a whole. Data for China are available only for the manufacturing sector while [...]
- Global| May 17 2011
German Investors: Almost Unanimous On Current Good Times, But Worry That The Good Times Won't Last
The balance of opinion on current economic conditions in Germany of the 295 Institutional investors and financial analysts responding to the ZEW financial market survey in May rose from 87.1% in April to 91.5%, the highest balance on [...]
- Global| May 16 2011
Statistical Evidence Of The Impact Of Japan's March Disasters
More statistical evidence of the impact of the March earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown in Japan is beginning to be released. Some indication of the effect on production has already come to the fore. Industrial [...]
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