Economy in Brief: January 2020

The ZEW financial experts, out of 38 assessments, find that there is more strength in 32 of them. The sweep of the change in assessments is undeniably higher in January. The economic situation has four above 50 percentile standings [...]

The ZEW financial experts, out of 38 assessments, find that there is more strength in 32 of them. The sweep of the change in assessments is undeniably higher in January. The economic situation has four above 50 percentile standings [...]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported that its Nonmanufacturing Business Index of current general activity at the company level rebounded to 23.5 during January after declining to 9.1 in December. The index of expected [...]

The Industrial Materials Price Index from the Foundation for International Business and Economic Research (FIBER) increased 1.2% during the four weeks ended Friday and 3.8% over the last three months. The price index increased 1.1% [...]

Fueled by low interest rates and a strong job market, new home building strengthened during December. Housing starts jumped 16.9% (40.8% y/y) to 1.608 million (AR) from November's 1.375 million...... The housing starts and permits [...]

Industrial production rebounded in November, rising 1.1% m/m (-0.8% y/y)..... Industrial production and capacity data are included in Haver's USECON database. Additional detail on production and capacity can be found in the IP [...]

• • Industrial production rebounded in November, rising 1.1% m/m (-0.8% y/y).... Industrial production and capacity data are included in Haver's USECON database. Additional detail on production and capacity can be found in the IP [...]

The EMU current account surplus fell to 33.94 billion euros in November from 35.76 billion euros in October. Year-on-year the current account surplus is slightly larger and the November total is also above the 12-month average. The [...]