Economy in Brief: November 2010

Japan's Economy Watcher's index fell in October as the bottom fell out of the current conditions index. That index is now in the bottom 60th percentile (top42 percentile) of its High/Low range. By queue some 70% of the values for the [...]

Manufacturing in the Netherlands accounts for about 15% of total Real Gross Value Added, but 57% of the Gross Value Added by the goods producing sectors. Data on new orders, turnover and production in manufacturing are available in [...]

Stability has turned toward an upward move amongst energy prices. The pump price for regular gasoline rose to $2.87 per gallon last week, up six cents w/w and up nearly twenty cents since early-September. Prices rose from the [...]

Reversing the earlier indication of labor market improvement, the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated in its Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) that the September job openings rate fell to 2.2% from a downwardly revised [...]

Small businesses optimism improved last month, finally. Following four months in the doldrums, the National Federation of Independent Business indicated that their index of small business optimism jumped to 91.7 last month from 89.0 [...]

Germany rules or drools? This month we saw the bottom suddenly fall out of German orders with especially weak results visited on German export orders. While the German trade picture seems to have held up in September Germany's [...]

The OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) published September leading composite indicators for its member countries and six non member transitions countries today. In the attached charts we show the indicators [...]

There's been a conscious effort by consumers to reduce debt levels this year. And despite Friday's report, it's ongoing. The Federal Reserve indicated that consumer credit outstanding rose $2.1B during September following declines [...]