Yamarone The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators

With New Chapters on Commodities and Fixed-Income Indicators, 2nd, Updated and Expanded Edition
2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-90178-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Bloomberg Professional

New economic data are reported by the media virtually every tradingday. Investors--big or small--have to understand how these reportsinfluence their investments, portfolios, and future sources ofincome.
The new edition of The Trader's Guide to Key EconomicIndicators homes in on the most important economic statisticsused on Wall Street today and in a clear and concise voice tellsyou exactly what these important reports measure and what theyreally mean.
With two new chapters on commodities and fixed-incomeindicators, this fully updated edition will be an easy-to-use deskreference for new readers, but will also be favored by fans of thefirst book.
From GDP and employment to consumer confidence and spending,you'll learn what to look for and how to react. This handyreference, illustrated with scores of instructive graphs andcharts, will put you ahead of the market curves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yamarone, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
The Business Cycle.
Indicators and the Markets.
How to Use This Book.
Who Can Benefit from This Book?
Note: All chapters are structured into the followingsections.
Evolution of an Indicator.
Digging for the Data.
What Does It All Mean?
How to Use What You See.
Tricks from the Trenches.
1. Gross Domestic Product.
2. Indexes of Leading, Lagging, and Coincident Indicators.
3. The Employment Situation.
4. Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization.
5. Institute for Supply Management Indexes.
6. Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders.
7. Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales.
8. New Residential Construction.
9. Conference Board Consumer Confidence and University ofMichigan Consumer Sentiment Indexes.
10. Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and FoodServices.
11. Personal Income and Outlays.
12. Consumer and Producer Price Indexes.
13. The Fixed-Income Market.
14. Commodities.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Yamarone, senior vice president and director ofeconomic research at Argus Research Corporation, has more than twodecades of experience on Wall Street, analyzing and researchingdomestic and international economic trends, monitoring monetary andfiscal policy developments, and forecasting the U.S. macroeconomy.He has consulted monetary and fiscal policymakers, and he serves asan economic adviser to several major U.S. corporations. He hasworked for international and domestic money center and investmentbanks in a variety of senior positions. In addition, he has taughtnumerous courses on macroeconomics and economic indicators atseveral colleges and institutions. He has served as president ofthe prestigious Downtown Economists Club of New York City and is amember of the National Association for Business Economists, theAmerican Economic Association, the New York State EconomicsAssociation, and the Money Marketeers of New York University.
At Argus Research, Yamarone is a member of the Investment PolicyCommittee and is responsible for establishing the firm's top-downeconomic and interest-rate forecasts, as well as its estimates formonthly economic indicators. He makes frequent appearances onbusiness television and radio shows, and is one of the most quotedeconomists on the Street today. In 2007, USA Todayhighlighted Yamarone as one of the top ten economists in thenation.