Yamarone The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators

3. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23313-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Bloomberg Professional

A handy reference to understanding key economic indicatorsand acting on them
New economic data are reported virtually every trading day.Investors, big and small, have to understand how these reportsinfluence their investments, portfolios, and future sources ofincome. The third edition of The Trader's Guide to Key EconomicIndicators examines the most important economic statisticscurrently used on Wall Street. In a straightforward and accessiblestyle, it tells you exactly what these reports measure and whatthey really mean.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, thisreliable resource sheds some much-needed light on theses numbersand data releases and shows you what to look for and how to reactto various economic indicators.
* Covers everything from gross domestic product and employment toconsumer confidence and spending
* Author Richard Yamarone shares his experience as a formertrader, academic, and current Wall Street economist
* Illustrated with instructive graphs and charts that will putyou ahead of market curves
Engaging and informative, this book will put you in a betterposition to make more informed investment decisions, based of someof today's most influential economic indicators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yamarone, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 Gross Domestic Product 11
CHAPTER 2 Indexes of Leading, Lagging, and Coincident Indicators47
CHAPTER 3 The Employment Situation 65
CHAPTER 4 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization 83
CHAPTER 5 Institute for Supply Management Indexes 101
CHAPTER 6 Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, andOrders 123
CHAPTER 7 Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales 139
CHAPTER 8 New Residential Construction 151
CHAPTER 9 Conference Board Consumer Confidence and University ofMichigan Consumer Sentiment Indexes 167
CHAPTER 10 Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services183
CHAPTER 11 Personal Income and Outlays 199
CHAPTER 12 Consumer and Producer Price Indexes 219
CHAPTER 13 The Fixed-Income Market 235
CHAPTER 14 Commodities 259
About the Author 285
Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD YAMARONE is a Bloomberg Senior Economist withmore than two decades of experience on monetary and fiscal policy,economic indicators, fixed income, commodities, and generalmacroeconomic conditions. He authors and oversees the BloombergBRIEF: Economics, a daily newsletter that features analysis,data, and news on the forces shaping the global economy. Yamaroneis also the creator of the Bloomberg Orange Book, acompilation of macroeconomic anecdotes gleaned from comments thatCEOs and CFOs made on quarterly earnings conference calls. He 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.Yamarone has won numerous accolades for his work, including beingfeatured as one of the top ten economists in the U.S. by USAToday in 2007 and was named "Nostradamus of the FinancialIndustry" by Bank Advisor in 2008 for his prediction of thefinancial crises.