Economy in Brief: October 2010

Consumer confidence in Japan slipped in September for the third month in a row. It is back at its level of April this year. Confidence ranks in the lower 40% of its long term range. Willingness to buy durable goods stands in the lower [...]

As noted in the September 2010 HAVER ANALYTICS NEWS, Haver Analytics has added a new data base, EQUITIES. The new database offers data on the capital markets of 78 countries. In addition to major price indexes, the database includes [...]

Small businesses see little to improve their sense of well being about the U.S. economy. The National Federation of Independent Business indicated that their index of small business optimism inched up to 89.0 last month from 88.8 in [...]

Industrial production data for August and, in some cases, September, have recently been released for a number of countries. Today, data for two developed economies--France and Italy--and two developing economies--Indonesia and [...]

In the latest report, the National Association for Business Economics indicated that moderate U.S. economic growth will continue through next year. However, expectations for 2.6% growth are down from the previous forecast of 3.2%. [...]

It could be worse, and maybe it will become so. But for now the OECD area is simply showing a slowing that is very widespread. But in the aftermath of this weekend's failed IMF meeting the global trade tensions have not been mended [...]

Japan's recovery from its recession seems to progress from end 2008 according to the Economy Watcher's index. Since then index appears to have made a 'bunny-hop' recovery with its current phase being the down portion of the second [...]

Job creation in the overall U.S. job market has yet to amount to much. Private sector nonfarm payrolls rose just 64,000 last month following increases of 93,000 and 117,000 during August and July, respectively. These gains continue to [...]