China's seasonally adjusted trade surplus increased $9.6 billion in December to $13.5 billion from $3.9 in November. Exports were down $1.6 billion from $165.4 billion in November to $163.9 billion in December. The chief source of the [...]
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Global| Jan 10 2012China's December Trade Data Suggest Slower Economic Growth
- Global| Jan 09 2012
Irish Consumers Become More Pessimistic
Consumer sentiment in Ireland began to improve early this year but took a turn for the worse in November and December as the financial difficulties in the Euro Area intensified. The index of Consumer sentiment (Q4 95=100) finished up [...]
- Global| Jan 03 2012
The Euro Crisis And Its Effect On Manufacturing In Emerging Markets
The Euro Crisis is beginning to have serious repercussions on more and more countries around the world. The declines in demand among the Euro Area countries as a result of the austerity programs they have adopted to deal with the [...]
- Global| Dec 20 2011
German Business Confidence Improves: Will Germany Avoid A Recession ?
In spite of the financial troubles in the Euro Area, German business confidence improved in December. According to the IFO, their measure of business confidence rose from 106.6 (2005=100) in November to 107.2 in December. The measure [...]
- Global| Dec 19 2011
Business Confidence And Activity Outlook In New Zealand
The year has seen big swings in business confidence and in the outlook for activity in New Zealand. Confidence and the Activity Outlook are measured by the balance of opinion--those who see an improvement less those who see [...]
- Global| Dec 13 2011
A Drop In The Pessimists Among German Investors And Analyst
A slight improvement in the ZEW (Germany's Center for European Economic Research) measure of the expectations of German investors and analysts for the economy in the next six months is bringing some cheer to the stock markets of [...]
- Global| Dec 12 2011
China's Balance of Trade in Goods Continues to Trend
China's trade balance declined in November to $14.5 billion from $17.0 billion in October. There was a $17 billion increase in exports, but imports increased $20 billion. Although exports increased, the declining trend in the year to [...]
- Global| Dec 06 2011
More Countries Release Third Quarter GDP Data
Four more countries--Brazil, Slovakia, Romania and South Korea released third quarter gross domestic product data today. Three, South Korea, Slovakia and Brazil showed slow downs in activity. The economy of Brazil actually showed a [...]
- Global| Dec 05 2011
Purchasing Managers See Recession Ahead for the Euro Area
Purchasing Managers released their final estimates for the November services and composite diffusion indexes for the Euro Area today. Final estimates for manufactures were released last week. Although the Composite index rose slightly [...]
- Global| Nov 29 2011
German Entrepreneurs and Consumers Shrug Off the Bad News in November
In spite of the turmoil in the Euro Area and the European Union, consumers and entrepreneurs in Germany saw some slight improvement in the economic climate in November. The IFO institute reported that entrepreneurs experienced a [...]
- Global| Nov 28 2011
Can the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Avoid a Recession?
George Osborne, UK's, Chancellor of the Exchequer is scheduled to announce tomorrow a 30 billion pound National Infrastructure Plan and a 20 billion loan guarantee program to boost lending to small business. The programs should help [...]
- Global| Nov 22 2011
China's Stock Market as a Leading Indicator
The stock market as a predictor of economic trends lost much of its popularity in the United States, at least, after Paul Samuelson quipped decades ago that the stock market had forecast nine out of the last five recessions. In fact [...]
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