Economy in Brief: 2012

The OECD LEISs show slowdowns across most of EMU as well as for EMU itself. China is in "official" slowdown mode. The US escapes that designation as its reading is above 100. Still, the US measure has slipped a tick month-to month but [...]

U.S. import prices rose 0.7% in August, the first monthly increase since March, driven by a 4.1% surge in petroleum. July's total decreased 0.7%, revised from -0.6% reported initially. The August total was actually somewhat lower than [...]

The Department of Commerce announced today that the U. S. trade balance on goods and services was -$42.0 billion in July, slightly worse than the revised June figure of -$41.9 billion. Exports of goods and services were $183.l billion [...]

The UK trade balance improved moving to a smaller deficit position in July as exports rebounded strongly from a very weak June, gaining back what they had lost. But imports fell, building on losses over the last four months. Year- [...]

The UK trade balance improved moving to a smaller deficit position in July as exports rebounded strongly from a very weak June, gaining back what they had lost. But imports fell, building on losses over the last four months. Year- [...]

Consumer credit declined in July, by $3.3B, seasonally adjusted, the first outright decline since August 2011. However, revisions to recent months raised their amounts, June from $6.5B reported previously to $11.8B in today's data, [...]

The job market is having trouble showing consistent improvement.Nonfarm payrolls grew 96,000 during August following revised changes of 141,000 and 45,000 during the prior two months, earlier reported as 163,000 and 64,000, [...]

paragraphs German Orders and Sales By Sector and Origin Real and SA % M/M % SAAR Jul'12 Jun'12 May'12 3Mo 6Mo 12Mo YrAgo Q-2-D Total Orders % % % % % % % % Foreign 3.0% 1.7% -3.8% 3.2% -0.2% -0.8% 13.1% -3.3% Domestic 1.3% -0.8% 1.7% [...]