The number of jobs in Israel increased 5,000 in January from December, seasonally adjusted, to 2.59 million, according to data reported today by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The gain from a year ago was 79,000 jobs, or [...]
Introducing
Carol Stone, CBE
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Carol Stone, CBE came to Haver Analytics in 2003 following more than 35 years as a financial market economist at major Wall Street financial institutions, most especially Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities. She has broad experience in analysis and forecasting of flow-of-funds accounts, the federal budget and Federal Reserve operations. At Nomura Securites, among other duties, she developed various indicator forecasting tools and edited a daily global publication produced in London and New York for readers in Tokyo. At Haver Analytics, Carol is a member of the Research Department, aiding database managers with research and documentation efforts, as well as posting commentary on select economic reports. In addition, she conducts Ways-of-the-World, a blog on economic issues for an Episcopal-Church-affiliated website, The Geranium Farm. During her career, Carol served as an officer of the Money Marketeers and the Downtown Economists Club. She has a PhD from NYU's Stern School of Business. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a weekend home on Long Island.
Publications by Carol Stone, CBE
Global| Apr 06 2006Employment Grows in Israel; Wages Rise, but Lose Ground to Inflation
- Global| Apr 05 2006
MIT Center for Real Estate Compiles Price and Total Return Indexes for Commercial Real Estate Transactions: [...]
Commercial real estate has increased significantly in importance as an investment medium in recent years. Securitization of commercial mortgage securities and direct interests in portfolios of properties join residential real estate [...]
- Global| Mar 31 2006
More Good News from Japan: Lower Unemployment, Higher CPI
We've written about Japan frequently here the last few weeks, and candidly, we make no apology for appearing to be single-minded. Economists, practitioners of "the dismal science", rarely, it seems, have the opportunity to discuss [...]
- Global| Mar 30 2006
French Consumers Look for Higher Unemployment; German Jobs and Unemployment Little Changed in Latest Labor Data
Labor policies are at the fore currently in France and Germany. France, as it tries to modify its basic "lifetime employment" work arrangements, faces massive riots by people at the other end of the economic spectrum -- who basically [...]
British retailers face disappointing sales this month, according to today's release of the monthly CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Distributive Trades Survey. A month ago, a net of just 5% of respondents said they looked for [...]
- Global| Mar 24 2006
New Home Sales Fall 10.5% in February; Inventories Rose and Prices Declined
New home sales fell 10.5% in February, the largest one-month decline since February 1995. Sales were 1.08 million (SAAR), the lowest volume since March 2003. Following January's 5.3% drop, sales over the two months were down 15.3%, [...]
- Global| Mar 24 2006
New Home Sales Fall 10.5% in February; Inventories Rose and Prices Declined
New home sales fell 10.5% in February, the largest one-month decline since February 1995. Sales were 1.08 million (SAAR), the lowest volume since March 2003. Following January's 5.3% drop, sales over the two months were down 15.3%, [...]
- Global| Mar 23 2006
Chemical Prices Surge with Petroleum, But Some Stabilize or Even Decline Recently
Besides its wide array of macroeconomic databases, Haver Analytics also features a number of industry offerings. Just this morning, for example, Chemical Week magazine released its weekly report on chemical prices. These are [...]
New orders for manufactured goods in Euro-Zone countries fell 5.9% in January, according to a report published today by Eurostat. This drop followed sizable increases of 4.9% and 5.3% in November and December, respectively, however, [...]
- Global| Mar 17 2006
"All Economics Is Local": Labor Markets in US Cities
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published January employment and unemployment data for US metropolitan areas. These are contained in Haver's EMPLR database. The database includes labor force, employment, unemployment and [...]
- Global| Mar 16 2006
France, Netherlands & Slovenia See Better Labor Market Conditions in Late 2005 and Early 2006
Yesterday here, we talked about the persistent sluggishness of employment in the UK. A few weeks ago, we had a similar discussion about Germany. While these two large European economies are seeing their labor markets struggle, those [...]
- Global| Mar 15 2006
UK Employment Conditions Continue To Erode
Since we last reported on the UK labor market here in mid-January, conditions have continued to soften. Measured by 3-month centered moving averages, employment and unemployment have both deteriorated. In the December period [...]
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