Several of the economic effects of the Middle East Crisis can be monitored using data found in various Haver Databases. Among the information to be found in the daily and weekly databases are stock prices, exchange rates, spot and [...]
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Global| Jul 17 2006Monitoring the Economic Effects of the Middle East Conflict
- Global| Jul 11 2006
Japanese Consumer Sentiment Wavers: Price Expectations Suggest that Concern over Inflation Is Replacing that over [...]
Consumer sentiment among Japanese households with two or more persons declined to 47.2 from 49.8 in May according to the Cabinet Office's diffusion index. The decline was greater than expected and resulted in the lowest value of the [...]
- Global| Jul 10 2006
May Industrial Production Up Sharply in France and Greece, Less So in Sweden and Turkey, but the Latter Two Show [...]
Four counties--France, Greece, Sweden and Turkey--released industrial production data for May this morning. France and Sweden are more highly developed in an economic sense than Greece and Turkey. In France, where industrial [...]
- Global| Jun 27 2006
Business Confidence in Europe Still Strong in Spite of Euro Strength, High Oil Prices and Rising Interest Rates
Germany, Italy and the Netherlands reported increased business confidence today. We noted yesterday that confidence in Belgium had also increased. France is the only Euro Zone country that, so far, has seen a decline in business [...]
- Global| Jun 26 2006
ĀBusiness Confidence Strengthens in BelgiumĀ But Weakens in FranceĀĀ
European measures of confidence for June are beginning to appear. Last Friday Belgium reported a surprisingly large increase in business confidence. The National Bank of Belgium's overall gross synthetic indicator of business [...]
- Global| Jun 20 2006
Employment Situation in Italy Improves: Foreign New Orders up Sharply
Italy's labor force survey for the first quarter shows commendable improvement in the employment situation throughout the country. Total employment rose almost 1% to 22.8 million in the first quarter from the last quarter of 2005 and [...]
- Global| Jun 19 2006
Euro Zone Trade Deficit Increases in April: Rising Cost of Petroleum Imports the Culprit
The Euro Zone reported a deficit for April of 870 million euros in its trade in goods with the rest of the world. This was more than double the March figure of 350 million euros, and was in sharp contrast to the surplus of 3,167 [...]
- Global| Jun 13 2006
German Investors Lose Confidence in Economic Outlook, While Industrialists Remain Sanguine
Two recent indicators of confidence in Germany show a mixed picture. Yesterday, the German Chamber of Commerce reported that a June survey of industrialists in some 25,000 companies showed that the balance of those expecting [...]
- Global| Jun 12 2006
More Uncomfortable Signs of Inflation: German Wholesale Prices
Wholesale prices in Germany rose 5% in May over a year ago. This was the largest year-over-year increase since the 6.05% recorded in November, 2000. Moreover, most of the prices in the underlying components of the index are now [...]
Like the NTC Economics Ltd. surveys of the intentions of purchasing managers in the manufacturing industries, that Carol Stone commented on last week, theMay survey of purchasing managers in the service industries is another sign of [...]
- Global| Jun 05 2006
First Quarter, 2006 Corporate Profitability in Japan At Peak Levels: Fuels Increase in Capital Spending
Corporate Financial data for nonfinancial corporations was published today and can be found in the Financial Section of Haver's Japan data base. Profits before taxes for nonfinancial corporations in Japan rose 12.26% in the first [...]
- Global| May 23 2006
Dutch, Slovene and Italian Consumers a Little More Confident: Dutch, Slovene, and French Business a Little Less So
Several confidence indicators were released today--consumer and business indicators for the Netherlands and Slovenia, consumer confidence for Italy and business confidence for France. Consumer confidence rose in both the Netherlands [...]
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