All Industries Index
This index shows the price movement for a combination of price has been adjusted (adjusted) in advance of all the industrial index.
Average Hourly Earnings
The growth rate between the average rate per hour in a month and the rate of wage growth, so it can also be used as an indicator of inflation. Rate per year is also important to provide an overview listened to a long-term trend.
Business Inventories
Inventory numbers that have been produced but not sold.
Is one component in the calculation of GDP and could provide important clues about the direction of the economy in the future.
CBI Survey
Britain's biggest employers' organization, focused on creating ideal conditions for maintaining competition and optimum prosperity for all. CBI survey published each month and four months for assessment in the service sector and manufacturing past, present, and future. The resulting index shows the view of respondents to a variety of things such as output, sales, pricing, investment, and demand for exports / imports.
Chicago PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index)
PMI data is from Chicago and surrounding areas. The scope of the survey includes both industry-sector, as well as non-industrial sector (which is rarely recognized by market participants).
PMI itself is a composite index of five main indicators, which include: Order, Inventory Levels, Production, Delivery, and Labor.
Index figure above 50 means the business sector experienced an expansion, below 50 means contraction. This index is considered as an important indicator and is considered the best indicator in measuring the activity of production. This index can also detect the pressure of inflation and industrial activity.
Consumer Confidence
These data measure the level of consumer optimism on the economy's performance. In general, Consumer Confidence will be high if low unemployment and high GDP. Data (change) per month is considered to be no significant impact on the overall trend.
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Is the data that measures the average change in prices paid by consumers (in average) for a specific group of goods and services.CPI is an inflation indicator most commonly used and is considered also as an indicator of the effectiveness of government policy.Rising CPI indicates that rising inflation will cause a drop in bond prices and rising interest rates.
Unlike other inflation indicators, which covers only goods of local production, the CPI also includes imported goods. The weakness is in the small number of samples taken. Analysts usually focus more on the Core (core) CPI, a variant of the CPI that excludes components that most price changes are not stable. Core CPI is considered more accurate in measuring the inflation rate.
Current Account
Is the difference between total exports and imports of goods, services, and transfer. Is part of the trade balance. In the calculations, the Current Account does not include the transactions of financial assets and liabilities (debts). These data are indicators of trends in foreign trade.
Durable Goods Orders
Is the data to calculate the volume (in dollars) orders and deliveries of goods including durable categories (items useful life of 3 years or more).
Existing Home Sales
Is a regional report on home resale activity.
Factory Orders
Is the data that calculates the value (in dollars) order (order) of new durable goods (durables) and perishable (non-durables). These data provide a more complete report than the Durable Goods Orders of data that was released a week or two earlier. These goods orders data will give an idea of how busy is the industrial sector in the next few months to fulfill the order. Automated so that a larger number of data means that the increasing levels of market demand.
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
Is an agency of the Federal Reserve (U.S. central bank) which sets interest rate policy and credit. The FOMC is the policy-making body of the most important in the Federal Reserve system. The institution is currently chaired by Ben Bernanke is usually periodic meetings held 8 times a year to decide whether or not there is a change in monetary policy.
FOMC Minutes
Is the announcement from the Federal Reserve held a meeting to explain about the determinants of U.S. monetary policy institutions before.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Measures the market value of goods and services produced by a country, regardless of the nationality of companies that produce goods or services. GDP consists of four main components: consumption, investment, government purchases, and total net exports. Released per quarter, these data show the percentage rate of growth from the previous quarter. The GDP report is divided into 3 release:
1) advanced first release.
2) preliminary first revision.
3) the final second and final revision. Revisions is what is usually a significant impact to the market.
Help-wanted Index.
Is an index that counts the number of jobs advertised in 51 newspapers scattered across the United States. Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, often talking and observing this index because the index is able to provide labor market conditions in the U.S. today.
P H I C
Approximately equal to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). An inflation indicator used by the European Central Bank (European Central Bank).
Housing Starts & Building Permits
Housing starts are monthly data to calculate the amount of the construction of new housing units per month. Most of the data collected from the Housing Starts and permit applications (permits) for the construction of houses. This data includes the main indicators. The importance of this data lies in its ability to trigger changes in economic conditions, predict changes in growth rate.Decline in the number of new housing units could slow the economy and lead to a recession. Conversely, an increase in the number of new housing units
indicates the growth of the economy.
Monthly increase that exceeds the estimated interpreted as an indication of rising inflationary pressures.
IFO Survey
Germany's main survey on business conditions. Published monthly by the Institute for Economic Research, one of the largest research institute in Germany, the IFO index is generally considered as an important indicator of economic activity, and renowned reliability in indicating changes in trends in the growth rate
German economy. Survey respondents included more than 7,000 companies.
Industrial Production
Industrial Production is monthly data that measures the total production of all plants, mining, and public service companies (electricity, water, gas, transportation, etc.).
Manufacturing Production, the largest component of Industrial Production Data, can be predicted accurately from the total hours worked from the employment report. One of the biggest weaknesses of this data is the inclusion of public service production-level components that can be strongly influenced by the change (eg climate change).
The increase in excess of estimates of this indicator is defined as rising inflation, which in turn will cause a drop in bond prices and rising interest rates.
Industrial Production & Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production is monthly data that measures the total production of all plants, mining, and public service companies (electricity, water, gas, transportation, etc.). Manufacturing Production, the largest component of Industrial Data
Production, can be predicted accurately from the total hours worked from the employment report. One of the biggest weaknesses of this data is the inclusion of public service production-level components that can be strongly influenced by the change (eg climate change).
While Capacity Utilization is a complement of the data Industrial Production. Capacity Utilization calculate the level of use of capital used in production processes. This data up and down in line with the business cycle. Rising levels of
production will also cause a rise in this data. However, very high level of difficulty in compiling these data led to believe the market is less than forecast accuracy improvement of the indicator is defined as rising inflation, which in turn will cause a drop in bond prices and rising interest rates.
Industrial Production and Manufacturing Production
Industrial Production is monthly data that measures the total production of all plants, mining, and public service companies (electricity, water, gas, transportation, etc.). Manufacturing Production, the largest component of Industrial Data
Production, can be predicted accurately from the total hours worked from the employment report. One of the biggest weaknesses of this data is the inclusion of public service production-level components that can be strongly influenced by the change (eg climate change).The increase in excess of estimates of this indicator is defined as rising inflation, which in turn will
cause a drop in bond prices and rising interest rates.
Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Index
Formerly known as NAPM, effectively unchanged since January 2002.
Is an important survey on U.S. manufacturing activity conducted by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Reports are usually issued on the first day of work in each month, providing a detailed view of the beginning of the manufacturing sector prior to the issuance of another employment report.
This survey is known as the accuracy of timeliness (time period) it, the breadth of information available, and the numbers listed on its headline is a function of the six main components: a price paid, new orders, supplier, delivery, production, inventories and employment. It should be noted, third-last component reflects the strength of supply (supply), while the three previous components reflect
power demand (demand).
Can be seen how the relative trend between the two groups (supply and demand) illustrates the balance between two forces, and this provides a view of the policies of the Federal Reserve.
Component price paid (Paid Price) is widely considered as a component of this involves an element of price pressures in the sector, the number 50 or more indicates that the sector is expanding, while a reading below 50 indicates a contraction.
Leading Indicators
Is a composite of several other economic indicators. Index was constructed to obtain a signal about the economic trends are more up-to-date (current) and consistent.
M4 - Money Supply
Is the data that measures the amount of money circulating in the economy. Is the sum of:
Amount of money circulating in the form of coins or paper;
Amount of bank loans, to individuals, companies and other banks;
The amount of money borrowed by the government.
Monetary experts believe that the Money Supply is a good indicator for predicting inflation. However, the correlation becomes unreliable since the financial liberalization in '80s.
Net Capital Flows
Is the data that calculates the net difference of the total funds / capital in and out.
New York's Empire State Manufacturing Index
Monthly survey of industrialists held in New York and the surrounding area by the New York Federal Reserve. This survey participants represent a wide range of industry sectors.
Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)
Approximately equal to the CPI, PCE is a report (more precisely the part of the Personal Income report) released by the Commerce Department Bureau of Economic Analysis. PCE measures the rate of change of prices of goods and services. This data component consists of household expenditures in cash or credit for any type of
both durable goods, not durable, and services.
Philadelphia Fed Index (Business Outlook Survey)
Is a monthly survey of industrialists in the region around the state of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Companies surveyed indicated a change in all business activities and their wide range of industrial activities. In question involves labor, working hours, orders, inventory
goods, shipping, payments and receipts.
The index number above zero means expansion, and contraction when below zero.
This data is considered a good indicator of changes in all matters relating to the industry. Assessed accurately reflects the current condition. However, because it only covers three states, less able to describe the condition of the country as a whole.
Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)
PMI is a composite index of five main indicators, which include: Order, Inventory Levels, Production, Delivery, and Labor. Index figure above 50 means the industry is experiencing an expansion, below 50 means contraction.
This index is considered as an important indicator and is considered the best indicator in measuring the level of production.This index can also detect the pressure of inflation and industrial activity.
Productivity
Measuring changes in the amount of goods and services produced per unit. Combining labor and capital inputs. Unit price of labor component is a useful indicator for measuring the pressure on wages. The importance of productivity has been growing in recent years since the Federal Reserve has started to pay attention to the development trend and the inflation rate.
Producer Price Index (PPI)
Is the set of indices that calculate rate of change of prices of goods and services at a specific time period which is received by domestic producers. In short, the PPI measures price change from the perspective of the seller.
Not as good as the CPI indicates inflation pressure. But because components include items that are in the process of production, as well as PPI can often estimate the CPI.
PSNCR - Public Sector Net Cash Requirement
Is the amount of money must be borrowed to finance government spending-spending. Because governments often spend more than they receive from tax revenues, and the only way to increase the weakness is from borrowing.
Real GDP
Experts tend to pay more attention to macroeconomic Real GDP takes into account the data for inflation, are not as well as the (nominal) GDP which only reflects the price changes.
Retail Sales
This data to calculate the total receipts of retail stores, without including the expenses for the service sector component in it.Monthly data shows the percentage change from previous month's data. Negative number indicates the number of sales decreased from sales previous month.
Tertiary Index
Is the data to calculate the level of demand for the service sector.
Tics / Foreign Purchases of U.S. Securities
Is the data that calculates the amount of capital inflows from foreign investors.
Trade Balance
Trade balance is the net difference between exports and imports of goods and services a country in a given period. Positive numbers indicate a surplus (exports exceed imports), the negative shows a deficit (imports exceed exports).
Unemployment Rate
Is the percentage of those who actively search for jobs but have not gotten the job. Although the data that is commonly known (because there are simple and the political implications), Unemployment Rate is relatively less important for the market because it is considered less accurate (often late in providing the signal changes in economic trends).
University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
Is the survey on consumer confidence conducted by the University of Michigan. U.S. consumer confidence indicator is the most attention.
Consumer confidence is an important indicator for the business cycle because it provides important information about consumers' assessment of current conditions and expectations in the future.
Survey data taken by posting questionnaires to 5,000 households across the country as a sample which represents, approximately 3,500 of them responded. The questionnaire contains five questions: (1) rating of business conditions in the domestic environment, (2) rating of business conditions in six months, (3) availability of field
work in the household environment, (4) availability of employment within six months, and (5) family income in six months.
Consumer Confidence is closely related to the level of unemployment, inflation, and real income. Generally, consumer confidence high if low unemployment and high GDP growth rates.
Financial markets interpret this increase of the index will rise as an indication of the level of consumer spending. The high level of expenditure in turn could trigger inflation.
Weekly initial jobless claims
Is the average weekly number of new claims for unemployment benefits. This data report provides an up-to-date, though too often mistaken, about economic trends, with an increase (decrease) in these data indicate the occurrence of potentially slowing (accelerating) growth rate of labor.
Due to be released weekly, this data can be extremely sensitive and volatile. Analysts prefer moving average per 4 weeks of this data to obtain more accurate results.
ZEW Current Situation and Economic Sentiment
Is a survey of the German ZEW research institute that provides an overview and assessment of current conditions of the German economy.
