The German financial community is more positive about the current situation but more cautious about the outlook. The latest survey of 282 institutional investors and analysts, conducted by ZEW Center for European Economic Research [...]
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Global| Oct 19 2010Germany's Financial Experts See The Good Times Waning
- Global| Oct 18 2010
Singapore Trade In Strong Recovery
The small island of Singapore--an area of some 263 square miles and a population of just over 5 million people--has one of the highest per capita GDPs in Asia. In 2009, per capita GDP was $36,537. Foreign trade is the source of much [...]
- Global| Oct 12 2010
Exploring The Haver "Equities" Data Base
As noted in the September 2010 HAVER ANALYTICS NEWS, Haver Analytics has added a new data base, EQUITIES. The new database offers data on the capital markets of 78 countries. In addition to major price indexes, the database includes [...]
- Global| Oct 11 2010
Contrasting Trends In Industrial Production Of Developed And Developing Economies
Industrial production data for August and, in some cases, September, have recently been released for a number of countries. Today, data for two developed economies--France and Italy--and two developing economies--Indonesia and [...]
- Global| Sep 28 2010
Where To Find Data On Gold In Haver
PRICES: Daily prices of gold can be found in the Haver databases, DAILY and INTDAILY, weekly prices in the Haver databases, WEEKLY and INTWKLY, and monthly prices in USECON and IFS. The IFS database contains monthly data back to [...]
- Global| Sep 27 2010
The Czechs And The Dutch - A Little Less Confident In September
The Czech Republic and the Netherlands reported measures of confidence among their consumers and business communities. There were small declines in both measures in both countries. In the Netherlands, the percent balance between [...]
- Global| Sep 21 2010
Price Of Cotton Soars
The cash price for a pound of cotton was 95.22 cents last Friday, up 19% since the end of July. By Monday of this week, the futures price was over one dollar up almost 25%. The first two charts show the daily futures and cash prices [...]
- Global| Sep 20 2010
French Manufacturing New Orders Increase In July
In contrast to last week's report of a decline in German new orders for manufacturing, France, today, reported an increase in new orders for manufacturing from 91.1 (2005=100) in June to 92.7 in July. The level of French new orders is [...]
- Global| Sep 14 2010
Balance Of Opinion Of Germany's Financial Experts Turn Negative On Outlook
Pessimists concerning the outlook for the next six months among German institutional investors and analysts now outnumber optimists for the first time since March of 2009. In September the ZEW indicator fell to -4.3% from 14.0% in [...]
- Global| Sep 13 2010
Growth In China's Industrial Production And Retail Sales Allays Fears Of Weakening Global Economy
The latest economic news from China suggests that the deceleration of growth in industrial production and in retail sales evident in the first half of this year may be coming to an end. The year to year gain in industrial production, [...]
- Global| Sep 07 2010
Germany's July Manufacturing Sales And New Orders Slow
The value of Germany's new orders fell 2.6% in July from June, the first month to month decline since December of last year. The decline was due entirely to a decline in foreign orders as domestic new orders held steady. Total export [...]
- Global| Aug 31 2010
More Depressing Data From Japan
While the monetary authorities and the politicians scramble to develop policies to stimulate Japan's faltering economy, more and more actual data are being released confirming the need for such activity. The July Industrial Production [...]
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