Economy in Brief

In April three of five large EU countries experienced monthly increases in industrial production. We can set Spain aside, to some extent, since its monthly figures are so volatile. Still, Spain and the UK are the only two of this [...]

The ‘what’ of trade in April: The U.S. trade deficit widened modestly in April as exports declined and imports moved lower despite a bump up from oil imports. The U.S. deficit in international trade of goods and services increased to [...]

The ‘what’ of trade in April: The U.S. trade deficit widened modestly in April as exports declined and imports moved lower despite a bump up from oil imports. The U.S. deficit in international trade of goods and services increased to [...]

A diverse group of European countries--Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Malta and Portugal--reported their first quarter GDPs today. Cyprus, the second smallest country in terms of population in the Euro Area, was one of [...]

German industrial production fell by a sharp 1.9% m/m in April. The April drop follows a small gain of 0.3% in March. The pace of decline in IP is slowing down in the recent three-month period as its negative growth rate (saar) is [...]

German orders are FLAT in April: what’s so good about that? German orders have been decimated over the past year with only two month-to-month gains in the past twelve months against a slew of huge month-to-month declines. This month’s [...]

German orders are FLAT in April: what’s so good about that? German orders have been decimated over the past year with only two month-to-month gains in the past twelve months against a slew of huge month-to-month declines. This month’s [...]

For the second month in a row there was a rise in the April estimate of the OECD composite leading indicator for all 29 countries, suggesting that, on average, the pace of economic deterioration may be slowing in the major [...]