Just a week ago, the report of good increases in industrial production and new orders in July suggested a more encouraging outlook for economic activity in Germany. Today's report of the Zew index casts a dampener on this outlook. The [...]
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Global| Sep 14 2004ZEW Index Puts a Dampener on Germany's Third Quarter Prospects
- Global| Sep 13 2004
Will China's Rising Inflation Put Pressure on Monetary Authorities To Revalue the Yuan?
Inflation in China is beginning to focus attention once more on its foreign exchange peg. The Chinese Yuan has remained close of 8.3 Yuan to the US dollar since the devaluation of January 1994. Consumer prices in August were 5.3% [...]
- Global| Sep 07 2004
German Industrial Production and New Orders Rise in July
Industrial production in Germany rose more in July than had been expected. The consensus had expected a rise in German industrial production after the 1.48% decline in June, but the extent of the rise was expected to be less than 1%. [...]
- Global| Aug 31 2004
Second Quarter GDP Growth in Canada Accelerates
The pause in GDP growth in many countries in the second quarter was not apparent in Canada. Real GDP in Canada rose 4.3% after a revised 3.0% in the first quarter. The consensus expectation was for a 5% rise, but that was before the [...]
- Global| Aug 30 2004
Australia's Capital Inflows Continue to Support the Australian Dollar
The Australian current account deficit increased to $12, 061 million Australian dollars in the second quarter from $10,293 million A$ in the first quarter. The deficit thus continues to run at close to 6% of GDP. In spite of the high [...]
- Global| Aug 24 2004
Are Welfare and Labor Reforms Affecting Domestic Demand in Germany?
The final report on Germany's second quarter GDP, confirmed the preliminary estimate of a 0.5% increase from the first to the second quarter. The chief source of growth came from exports, which increased 3.19% from the first to the [...]
- Global| Aug 23 2004
Deflation in Hong Kong Coming to an End?
Signs are increasing that the deflation is finally coming to an end in Hong Kong. Consumer prices in July were 0.88% above the year ago figure. This was the first increase since October of 1998. Prices in Hong Kong have fallen ever [...]
- Global| Aug 17 2004
ZEW Index of Investor Sentiment in Germany
Sentiment among German analysts and institutional investors declined sharply in August according to the ZEW index of the Mannheim-based ZEW Center for European Economic Research. The index fell 3.1 points to 45.3 from 48.4 in July. [...]
Of the euro zone countries that have reported second quarter Gross Domestic Product results, the Netherlands is the only one to date, to show a decline. In percentage terms the decline was -0.20% and, in euros, 191 million. Looking at [...]
Preliminary data on Germany's international trade position show that the balance on trade in goods declined 1.44 billion euros from 15.22 billion euros in May to 13.78 billion euros in June. The decline was the result of 3.69 billion [...]
- Global| Aug 09 2004
June Machinery Orders in Japan Point to Continued Expansion in the Economy
June machinery orders point to continued expansion in the Japanese economy. Machinery orders rose sharply in June. Foreign and public orders, taken together, were up 8.20% and core private orders, excluding ships and utilities were up [...]
- Global| Aug 09 2004
U.K. Producer Prices Up Sharply in July: Further Interest Rate Increase in September?
Last Thursday, August 5th, British monetary authorities raised the base rate by 25 basis points, the fifth such increase since last November, bringing the rate to 4.75%. The release today of the producer price indexes for input and [...]
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