Japan’s industrial production index is slowing over three-months and over six months.It is also falling in each of the last five months and of course, over three months, and also over six months. Weakness in the output of consumer [...]
Global| Nov 30 2010
All Growth Rates Agree – Can They All Be Wrong?
Global| Nov 30 2010
More Reports on GDP; Q/Q vs Y/Y
More information on the economic performance of individual countries in the third quarter of this year is becoming available. Third quarter GDP for two developed economies, Canada and Denmark, and three emerging economies, India, [...]
Global| Nov 30 2010
U.S. Consumer Confidence Recovers Further
The Conference Board reported that consumer confidence improved modestly for the second month during November but remained down sharply from the May high. The index of overall confidence rose 8.4% to 54.1 following a little-changed [...]
by:Tom Moeller
|in:Economy in Brief
Global| Nov 30 2010
Chain Store Sales Finish Month On Firm Note During Holiday Week
This holiday season began with a firm gain in consumer spending. Last week, chain store sales increased 0.5% to recover after the prior week's 0.6% decline. Adding to earlier strength, the rise lifted sales for the month 1.2% above [...]
by:Tom Moeller
|in:Economy in Brief
Global| Nov 30 2010
U.S. Case-Shiller Home Price Index Falls For Third Month
What strength in home prices there might have been evaporated this summer. During September, the seasonally adjusted Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index fell 0.8% after a 0.5% August drop that was deeper than reported initially. It [...]
by:Tom Moeller
|in:Economy in Brief
Global| Nov 29 2010
EuroCOIN Points to Improvement in Euro Area's Fourth Quarter GDP
In spite of financial troubles in Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, forward looking indicators are showing signs of improvement in the level of economic activity in the Euro Area as a whole. The latest measure to show improvement, [...]
Global| Nov 29 2010
EU Indices Show Improvement and Signs of Strain, Too
By sector retailing has the highest rank in its historic queue of values followed by the industrial sector. Construction is the weakest sector followed by services. But the change in the services index this month was the 13th largest [...]
Global| Nov 29 2010
U.S. Economic Misery Remains High, But Not Historic
The "misery index" is a popular indicator of stress in the U.S. economy and it now shows plenty of it. The idea for the figure was created by Yale University economist Arthur Okun. The two components of the series are the unemployment [...]
by:Tom Moeller
|in:Economy in Brief
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