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The economic indicator handbook: how to evaluate economic trends to maximize profits and minimize lo

The Daily Blotter The Economic Calendar Economist Estimates and Expectations The Bloomberg Economic Surprise Index The Events Calendar The Economic Statistics Table (ECST)The Powerful Economic Workbench The Bloomberg Orange Book of CEO Comments The Treasury and Money Market Rates The Bloomberg Financial Conditions Monitor Test Yourself The Business Cycle Leading, Lagging, and Coincident Indicators Coincident Indicators Forward-Looking Leading Indexes The Lagging Index and the Coincident-to-Lagging Ratio The Chicago National Activity Index The Yield Curve as a Predictor of the Business Cycle "Nowcasting" Economic Activity The Best Representation of U.S. Economic Activity Test Yourself Gross Domestic Product (GDP)Composition Nominal and Real Values Consumption Expenditures Investment Spending Inventories Government Spending Net Exports Deflators Final Sales Corporate Profits Gross Domestic Income Test Yourself The Labor Market and Employment Employment and the Business Cycle Two Measures of Employment: Payrolls and Households Household Survey Establishment Survey Unemployment The Labor Force Hiring of Temporary Workers Employment Trends of Various Age Cohorts The Duration of Unemployment Time and Full-Time Employment Price of Labor and Earnings Hours Worked Leaving the Labor Force Employment Diffusion Indexes Related Measures Test Yourself Retail Sales Different Perspectives Anecdotal Evidence Luxury Sales Shortcomings Corrections Recent Trends and Influences The Retail Calendar Holiday Retail Sales The Crucial Indicator Related Measures Recent Trends Test Yourself National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) Small Business Economic Trends The Business Cycle and the Headline NFIB Index The Crucial Indicator: Hiring Intentions Small Business Investment Spending The Outlook Index and the Economic Performance The Credit Market and the Small Business Sector Small Businesses and Inflation Shortcomings Related Measures Test Yourself Personal Income and Outlays Personal Income Personal Consumption Expenditures The Fab Five Indicators of Discretionary Spending Government Transfer Payments The "Savings" Rate Consumer Spending Inflation Measures Test Yourself Housing and Construction Overall Construction Spending Housing Market Index Housing Affordability Index Housing Construction Activity Single-Family Homes and Apartment Construction Applications for Mortgages Architect's "Work on the Books"Home Sales Home Supply Home Prices Test Yourself Manufacturing Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Production and Employment Capacity Utilization Utility Production Institute for Supply Management Indexes The Headline Purchasing Managers Index "Tweaking" Some of the ISM Measures Price Trends in the Manufacturing Sector Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Durable Goods Orders Core Orders and Shipments The Inventory-Shipments Ratio Test Yourself Prices and Inflation The Consumer Price Index The Producer Price Index Commodity and Raw Material Prices Import Prices Labor Market Price Activity Inflation Expectations Test Yourself Confidence and Sentiment Tweaking the Confidence Measures Confidence by Income Status The Misery Index Confidence and Big-Ticket Items Test Yourself The Federal Reserve Consumer Credit The Senior Loan Officer Survey The Flow of Funds Report The Philadelphia Fed Economic Measures The Chicago Fed's Midwest Economy Index The Cleveland Fed's Inflation Expectations Index The San Francisco Fed's Tech Pulse Index The New York Fed's Empire State Survey The Richmond Fed Surveys The Dallas Fed Surveys The Dallas Fed Trimmed Mean Index The Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey Test Yourself Sources and Additional Reading

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