The healthy October rises in German and Dutch measures of business confidence following yesterday's report of continued rising business confidence in France are beginning to suggest a pickup in economic activity within the Euro Zone. [...]
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Global| Oct 24 2005Some Improvement in French Business Confidence
Business confidence in France has been improving since June of this year when the balance of opinion on the general outlook registered 24% more pessimists than optimists. According to data released today by the French Institute of [...]
- Global| Oct 18 2005
Germany's ZEW Results Are Disappointing: Political Uncertainty and Inflation Causes?
The results of Germany's latest ZEW survey, released today, were below consensus, showing only a slight improvement in October in the balances between optimists and pessimists among German institutional investors and analysts [...]
- Global| Oct 17 2005
Rising Producer and Wholesale Price Indexes: A Prelude to Rising Consumer Price Indexes?
Among industrial countries the rise in inflation as measured by the year over year increase in the consumer price index has, to date, been relatively well contained in spite of the rise in energy costs. Inflation at the wholesale and [...]
- Global| Oct 11 2005
Good News in Japanese Machinery Order Data: Stock Market Reaches its Highest Level Since May 2001
Japanese data on machinery orders were released today by the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan. Although total machinery orders declined by 8.8% in August from July, there were [...]
- Global| Oct 10 2005
French Production and Construction, German Exports Increase in August
French industrial production, excluding construction, rose 0.8% in August after falling 0.7% in July. The rise brings the index to 101.4 (2000=100) its highest level since February of this year. Production of consumer goods, excluding [...]
- Global| Oct 04 2005
Varied Reports of Inflation
Diverse inflation rates, defined as the year-over-year percentage increases in the consumer price indexes, were reported for six countries--Indonesia, Korea, Peru, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela--yesterday and today. The two oil [...]
- Global| Oct 03 2005
Japan's Tankan Survey Moderately Disappointing
Preliminary results of .the Bank of Japan's Tankan Survey were moderately disappointing, falling short of consensus expectations. The percent balance between optimists and pessimists evaluating the current conditions in the third [...]
- Global| Sep 27 2005
German Business Confidence Measure (IFO) Surprises on the Up Side
The IFO's overall measure of business confidence in Germany, the Business Climate Index, rose unexpectedly in September to 96.0 (2000=100) from 94.6 in August. Most analysts had expected the index to weaken in view of the spike in [...]
- Global| Sep 26 2005
Big Business in Japan Becomes More Optimistic
Large Corporations (corporations with capital of 1 billion or more) in Japan have become more optimistic according to the Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the Cabinet Office's Economic and Social [...]
- Global| Sep 20 2005
Politics and Energy Prices Depress German Investor Confidence
Political considerations apparently weighed heavily on the economic expectations of German institutional investors and analysts in September. The Frankfurt based, Center for European Research (ZEW) reported that the number of those [...]
- Global| Sep 19 2005
Chinese Exports of Goods on the Way to Surpass Those of the U. S. and Germany in the Next Five Years
August exports of goods from the Republic of China recorded a 32% increase over the year ago figure according to the CEIC data that are available in Haver's CEIC China Premium Database. At this pace, it is not surprising that OECD [...]
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