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Recent macro-economic and financial market data

Reports on macro-economic situation

Macro-economic projections

Information on government budget

Speeches

Important home pages


Recent macro-economic and financial market data

[Key indicators(source BEA)] [ Key indicators(IMF's Dissemination Bulletin Board)] [Key data  (graphs, FED NY)] [Key data: calendar]

[ GDP, personal income and outlays, international trade, current account] [ international capital flows]

[ Employment and unemployment] [ weekly unemployment claims] [Industrial production] [Retail sales] [Inventories] [Chicago Fed National Activity Index] [Fed NY: Tech pulse index]

[Housing starts ] [Residential vacancies and homeownership] [ New home sales ] [ Existing home sales ] [ Other housing statistics of NAR] [Construction] [House prices (OFHEO)] [House prices (S&P/Case-Shiller)] [Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures ] [Home builders confidence] [NAHB housing opportunity index] [NAR housing affordability index] [FHFB monyhly survey on mortgages] [FHA information] [Fed: Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices ] [ Non-prime mortgage conditions by state ]

[CPI] [PPI] [Employment cost index] [Productivity and labor costs]

[ Durable goods orders (advance) ] [ Goods orders ] [ Leading indicator ] [ ISM purchasing managers indices ] [ Consumer Confidence (Conference Board)] [ Consumer Confidence (University of Michigan)] [ Consumer Confidence (University of Michigan) (graph)] [ Consumer FED Philadelphia: anxious index ]

[ OECD Economic Outlook: Statistical Annex / Flashfile ]

Stockmarket indices: [ Dow Jones index (intraday graph)] [Dow Jones index(end-of-day graph)] [Other stockmarket indices ]

Interest rates: [ Official interest rates of US, Japan and euro area(daily; graph)] [Fed funds futures] [Fed funds expectations coming FOMC meeting] [Interest rates(real-time)] [10yr government rates(graph)] [ Long-term interest rates] [10yr government rates(daily)] [Expected inflation]

Exchange rates: [euro/US$(real-time graph)] [US$/yen(real-time graph)] [ Euro vis-a-vis US$ (end-of-day graph 1)] [ US$/euro (end-of-day graph 2)] [ To make a customised graph]


Reports on macro-economic situation

[Fed: Beige Book] [Fed: Monetary Policy Report to Congress]

[ NBER: Recession ended in November 2001(July 2003)] [ other information of NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee ]

[ CEA: Economic Report of the President(annually; February) ]

[ CBO: Options for Responding to Short-Term EconomicWeakness (January 2008) ]

[ Treasury: Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies (December 2007) ]

Reports of Fed districts: [ Cleveland] [ St. Louis] [ other districts]

Interest rate decisions:   [ Statements and minutes]  [ 30 April 2008 (repo rate down by 25bp to 2%) ] [ 18 March 2008 (repo rate down by 75bp to 2.25%) ] [ 16 March 2008 (discount rate down by 25bp to 3.25%) ] [ 29 January 2008 (repo rate down by 50bp to 3%) ] [ 22 January 2008 (repo rate down by 75bp to 3.5%) ] [ Establishment of Term Auction Facility, 12 December] [ 11 December 2007 (repo rate down by 25bp to 4.25%) ] [ 31 October (repo rate down by 25bp to 4.5%) ] [ 17 September (repo rate down by 50bp to 4.75%) ] [ 17 August 2007 (discount rate down by 50bp to 5.75%; 1) ] [ 17 August 2007 (discount rate down by 50bp to 5.75%; 2) ] [ 8 August 2006(unchanged at 5.25%) ] [ 29 June 2006(25bp hike to 5.25%) ] [ 28 March 2006(25bp hike to 5%) ] [ 30 June 2004(25bp hike to 1.25%) ] 25 June 2003(25bp cut to 1%) ] [ 16 May 2000 (50bp increase to 6.5)

[ OECD Economic Outlook: summary country note and country forecast table] [OECD Economic Survey] [ Other OECD documents focussed on the United States] [ IMF country page]


Macro-economic projections

[ The Economist Poll of Forecasters]

[Federal Reserve(February 2008; see addendum )] [CBO] [CEA, Treasury & OMB(November 2007)]

[ Quarterly Survey of Professional Forecasters ] [ NABE Quarterly Outlook Survey ]

[ OECD] [ OECD Economic Outlook: Statistical Annex / Flashfile ] [ IMF]


Information on government budget

[The Presidents Budget documents]   [ Budget information from OMB]

[Monthly Treasury Statement] [ CBO's Analysis of the Monthly Treasury Statement]

[ CBO's The Budget and Economic Outlook(January 2008)] [ CBO's The Budget and Economic Outlook; An Update(August 2007)] [ CBO's current budget projections] [ other CBO reports] [US Congress information on budget]

[ BEA data on government budget]

[ Budget analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]


Speeches

Federal Reserve Board members: [Speeches] [Testimonies]

[(Deputy)Treasury Secretary]


Important home pages

Data: [Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)] [Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)] [Census Bureau] [Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED)] [Fedstats] [Conference Board] [Institute for Supply Management (National Association of Purchasing Management)] [Dr. T's EconLinks] [Dismal Scientist] [ECRI]

[Federal Reserve]

Government: [Treasury] [Treasury press releases] [Office of Management and Budget (OMB)] [Congressional Budget Office (CBO)] [Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)] [White House] [US Congress] [US Congress: Joint Economic Committee]

Financial markets: [New York stock exchange (NYSE)] [Nasdaq] [Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)] [Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)] [Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)]

Research institutes: [Brookings] [NBER] [Economic Policy Institute] [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] [American Enterprise Institute] [other institutes]

[AFL-CIO]

Real time news: [CNN] [Bloomberg] [Yahoo] Daily/weekly news: [WSJ] [NYT] [Business Week]

[Election results]

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