France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland released indicators of consumer confidence today. The latest data for the Swiss indicator, the UBS Consumption Indicator, are for March. Those for Italy, ISAE's consumer survey, and France, [...]
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Global| Apr 27 2010An Assortment Of Consumer Confidence Indicators
- Global| Apr 26 2010
The Components Of The 30% Y/Y Growth In Singapore's Manufacturing Production In Q 1
Almost two weeks ago, the Department of Statistics in Singapore released its flash estimate of first quarter year over the year growth of the economy of the city state--13.1%. The year to year growth in the manufacturing sector was [...]
- Global| Apr 26 2010
The Components Of The 30% Y/Y Growth In Singapore's Manufacturing Production In Q 1
Almost two weeks ago, the Department of Statistics in Singapore released its flash estimate of first quarter year over the year growth of the economy of the city state--13.1%. The year to year growth in the manufacturing sector was [...]
- Global| Apr 20 2010
German Investors Upbeat On Economic Prospects 6 Months Ahead
The German financial community is upbeat on Germany's economic prospects over the next six months despite the disruptions caused by the eruption of the Icelandic volcano. The ZEW Survey of institutional investors and analysts took [...]
- Global| Apr 19 2010
Japanese Consumer Confidence Improves But Is Still Historically Low
The Japanese consumer is becoming a little less pessimistic. The Economic and Social Research Institute's (ESRI) diffusion index for Consumer Confidence reached a low point of 26.7 in December 2008. The index rose steadily through [...]
- Global| Apr 13 2010
Inflation In France And Germany
Inflation, as measured by the year over year percentage change in the Consumer Price Index, accelerated in France and Germany in March as can be seen in the first chart. Inflation in Germany increased to 1.21% in March, up from 0.47% [...]
- Global| Apr 12 2010
Industrial Production In Five Countries
Five countries--Italy, Ireland, India, Kazakhstan and Mexico--reported February data on industrial production today. One, Kazakhstan reported data for March. We have put the various indexes on a common basis, 2003=100, so that growth [...]
- Global| Mar 30 2010
Some Positive Economic News From Portugal
Portugal, one of those problem countries in the Euro Area along with Ireland, Spain and Greece is beginning to show some slight signs of an improving economy . The first chart shows the year to year increases in Retail Trade and in [...]
- Global| Mar 29 2010
Economic Sentiment In Non Euro Countries Exceeds That Of Euro Area Countries
The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) of the European Commission for the 16 countries in the Euro Area rose to 97.9 in March from 95.9 in February. The ESI for the 27 countries in the European Union rose to 99.6 from 97.6. Both [...]
- Global| Mar 23 2010
Measures Of Inflation/Deflation In Taiwan
After some ten months of deflation measured by the year to year decline in the consumer price index, Taiwan has now experienced two months of inflation. In January the year to year change in the consumer price index was a small [...]
- Global| Mar 22 2010
Canadian Consumer Prices
Canadian consumer prices, seasonally adjusted, increased 1.57% in February from a year ago. The core index showed a larger increase, 2.04%. The core index has been rising faster than the total index since November 2008, as can be seen [...]
- Global| Mar 16 2010
German Investors More Cautious: Concerns Over Greece?
The ZEW March survey of German institutional investors and analysts shows that they are a little more cautious regarding macroeconomic expectations. The excess of optimists over pessimist declined by 0.6 percentage points from 45.1% [...]
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