Markit Economics, which conducts a monthly survey of purchasing managers in some 30 countries, publishes "Flash" estimates of the Purchasing Managers Surveys for the Euro Area as a whole and for Germany and France. The Survey covers [...]
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Global| Jan 24 2011Purchasing Managers See Some Deceleration In German And French Manufacturing
- Global| Jan 11 2011
British Chamber Of Commerce Survey Of Business Shows Increased Optimism
The British Chamber of Commerce quarterly survey of the manufacturing and service sectors of business for the last quarter of 2010 is more optimistic than the third quarter survey that reflected doubts about the new government's [...]
- Global| Jan 10 2011
Encouraging Industrial Production Reports From Five Countries
Five countries--France, Finland, Sweden, Slovakia and Turkey--reported Industrial Production data for November, 2010, today. Even though the data are seasonally adjusted, the month to month data for industrial production still show [...]
- Global| Jan 04 2011
Brazil Gets Protective Vis A Vis China
One of the priorities of the newly elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, is to reign in the rise of the Brazilian Real. As can be seen in the first chart, the real has been appreciating for almost two years from February 2009, [...]
- Global| Jan 03 2011
The IMF'S Fiscal Monitor: Government Debt/GDP
The IMF's Fiscal Monitor data, which were recently added to the IFS and IFSANN databases, provide the best available means of comparing fiscal developments and the IMF's projections of such developments for most countries. The Fiscal [...]
- Global| Dec 21 2010
More Evidence Of Declining Consumer Confidence
Consumers, in many countries appear to be loosing confidence. Yesterday it was the consumers in the Low countries who reported having second thoughts about their futures. Today it is the consumers in the UK and Sweden. Consumers in [...]
Data on consumer confidence in December were released today for the Netherlands. A few days ago similar data for Belgium were released. There are no measures of consumer confidence for the third low country, Luxembourg. In the [...]
- Global| Dec 14 2010
ZEW Indicator Appraises Current Conditions And Expectations Over Next 6 Months In Germany And Euro Area
There was little change in the German financial community's appraisal of current conditions and expectations for the next six months in the German economy from November to December. The latest ZEW survey that took place during the [...]
- Global| Dec 13 2010
Inflation Accelerates In China Due Mainly To Rising Food Prices
Inflation in China accelerated in the last two months. The year to year increase in the consumer price index rose from 3.6% in September to 4.4% in October and 5.1% in November, well above the government's target of 3%. Comparable [...]
- Global| Dec 07 2010
German Domestic Manufacturing New Orders Top Foreign New Orders
The German economy continues to show strength in the midst of the financial uncertainties of the Euro Area. The volume of manufacturing new orders rose 1.6% in October. Foreign new orders rose only 0.82%, due largely to a 0.28% fall [...]
- Global| Dec 06 2010
Copper Consumption, Production, Stocks and Prices in Haver Databases
The price of copper has more than tripled from its low point of $1.2474 per pound on December 24, 2008 to $3.9950 on December 3rd of this year, as can be seen in the first chart which shows the price of copper found in the Haver data [...]
- Global| Nov 30 2010
More Reports on GDP; Q/Q vs Y/Y
More information on the economic performance of individual countries in the third quarter of this year is becoming available. Third quarter GDP for two developed economies, Canada and Denmark, and three emerging economies, India, [...]
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