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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784474403321

Autore

Frumkin Norman

Titolo

Guide to economic indicators [[electronic resource] /] / Norman Frumkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Armonk, N.Y., : M.E. Sharpe, c2006

ISBN

1-315-70391-2

1-317-46928-3

1-280-91269-3

9786610912698

0-7656-2147-9

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

330.973/0021

Soggetti

Economic indicators - United States

Business cycles - United States

United States Economic conditions Statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables, Formulas, and Figure; Preface; 1 Average Weekly Earnings; 2 Average Weekly Hours; 3 Balance of Payments; 4 Balance of Trade; 5 Bank Loans: Commercial and Industrial; 6 Bankruptcies: Personal; 7 Capacity Utilization; 8 Consumer Attitude Indexes; 9 Consumer Credit; 10 Consumer Credit Delinquency; 11 Consumer Price Index; 12 Corporate Profits; 13 Distribution of Income; 14 Distribution of Wealth; 15 Employment; 16 Employment Cost Index; 17 Farm Parity Ratio; 18 GDP Price Measures; 19 Government Economic Transactions: Expenditures, Receipts, Surplus/Deficit

20 Gross Domestic Product21 Help-Wanted Advertising Index; 22 Home Sales: New and Existing Houses; 23 House Prices: New and Existing Houses; 24 Housing Affordability Index; 25 Housing Starts; 26 Housing Vacancy Rate; 27 Import and Export Price Indexes; 28 Industrial Production Index; 29 Interest Rates; 30 International Investment Position of the United States; 31 Inventory-Sales Ratios; 32 Job Gains and Losses; 33 Job Openings and Labor Turnove r; 34 Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Indexes; 35 Manufacturers' Orders;



36 Mortgage Loan Applications; 37 Mortgage Delinquency and Foreclosure

38 Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index39 PMI; 40 Personal Income and Saving; 41 Poverty; 42 Producer Price Indexes; 43 Productivity: Business Sector; 44 Retail Sales; 45 Selected Services Revenue; 46 Stock Market Price Aggregates and Dividend Yields; 47 Unemployment; 48 Unit Labor Costs: Business Sector; 49 Value of the Dollar; Appendix: Note on Sampling and Nonsampling Errors in Statistical Surveys; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Provides quick and easy access to reliable data on the major statistical measures of the U.S. economy. Equally useful for students, general readers, economists, analysts, journalists, and investors, this guide provides concise, jargon-free explanations of the meaning, use, and availability of more than 70 macroeconomic indicators.