The Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan Survey, or short term business outlook, was released today. The Bank surveyed 2,469 large, 2.915 medium and 5,455 small-sized enterprises over the period from May 28 to June 29. The headline [...]
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Global| Jun 26 2007Business and Consumer Confidence in Italy and the Netherlands
The Netherlands released June data on consumer and business confidence today and Italy released data on business confidence, having released data on consumer confidence last week. In Italy confidence is expressed as an index with [...]
- Global| Jun 26 2007
Business and Consumer Confidence in Italy and the Netherlands
The Netherlands released June data on consumer and business confidence today and Italy released data on business confidence, having released data on consumer confidence last week. In Italy confidence is expressed as an index with [...]
- Global| Jun 25 2007
Inflation Trends in Asia, ex Japan
Consumer Price Indexes for four countries--China, India, Singapore and Vietnam--were released today and can be found in the Haver Data Base. EMERGEPR, together with similar data for other Asian nations. Data are available, through [...]
- Global| Jun 19 2007
German Financial Community Turns Less Optimistic
The ZEW indicator that measures the balance of opinion among German institutional investors and analysts on the outlook six months ahead fell to 20.3% in June from 24% in May. The consensus expectation was for a rise to 29%. At the [...]
- Global| Jun 12 2007
Rises in the Japanese Corporate Goods Prices Index (CGPI) Are Yet to Be Reflected in the CPI
The Japanese Corporate Goods Prices Index (CGPI), a measure of producers' prices, rose 4.5% in May from May, 2006. This was the 37th month of year to year increases in this index. So far this rise has had little effect on the Consumer [...]
- Global| Jun 11 2007
ĀIs Growth in the Euro AreaĀpeaking? ĀĀ Ā
France, Italy and Ireland reported industrial production data for April today. In all three countries, contrary to expectations, industrial production declined from March. France was down 0.77%; Italy, 0.81% and Ireland, 3.26%. These [...]
- Global| Jun 11 2007
ĀIs Growth in the Euro AreaĀpeaking? ĀĀ Ā
France, Italy and Ireland reported industrial production data for April today. In all three countries, contrary to expectations, industrial production declined from March. France was down 0.77%; Italy, 0.81% and Ireland, 3.26%. These [...]
Eurostat released preliminary data for April retail trade today for the aggregates of the 13 countries in the Euro Area and the 27 countries in the European Union. The preliminary data are based on reports by countries representing at [...]
- Global| Jun 04 2007
Indonesia's Trade Balance Rises: Malaysia's Declines Reflecting Composition of Exports
Indonesia and Malaysia reported today data on trade in goods for April. Because of the volatility in the month to month data we have used a three month moving average in the discussion that follows and in the charts. Indonesia reports [...]
- Global| May 22 2007
European Surveys of Business and Consumer Confidence Show Increases in Optimism but Level Remains Subdued
Among the Euro area analysts and institutional investors surveyed by the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Manheim Germany, the excess of those who feel good about the current situation over those who feel bad rose to an [...]
- Global| May 22 2007
European Surveys of Business and Consumer Confidence Show Increases in Optimism but Level Remains Subdued
Among the Euro area analysts and institutional investors surveyed by the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Manheim Germany, the excess of those who feel good about the current situation over those who feel bad rose to an [...]
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