Recent Updates
- US: Consumer Sentiment (Sep-prelim), International Transactions (Q2)
- US: Consumer Sentiment Detail (Sep-prelim)
- Canada: Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade (Jul), Teranet House Prices (Aug)
- Canada Regional: Wholesale Trade by Province, Retail Trade by Province (Jul)
- Bosnia: PPI (Aug)
- more updates...
Economy in Brief
U.S. Current Account Deficit Deepens Significantly in Q2
The U.S. current account deficit grew to $170.5 billion in Q2 2020...
Canadian Retail Sales Get Back All Recession Losses Then Some
Canadian retail sales rose by 0.6% in July...
U.S. Housing Starts Decline in August as Multi-Family Weakens
New home building declined m/m but remained higher y/y...
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index Slips but Underlying Details Stronger
Headline index slipped to 15.0 in September from 17.2...
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Decline; Continuing Claims Range-bound
Seasonally adjusted state initial claims declined to 860,000 in the week ending September 12...
Andrew Cates
Haver Analytics is pleased to bring Andrew Cates's commentaries on the state of the global economy to its clients.
Andy Cates has more than 25 years of experience forecasting the global economic outlook and in assessing the implications for policy settings and financial markets. He has held various senior positions in London in a number of Investment Banks including as Head of Developed Markets Economics at Nomura and as Chief Eurozone Economist at RBS. These followed a spell of 21 years as Senior International Economist at UBS, 5 of which were spent in Singapore. Prior to his time in financial services Andy was a UK economist at HM Treasury in London holding positions in the domestic forecasting and macroeconomic modelling units.
He has a BA in Economics from the University of York and an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southampton.