The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators
Providing clear and concise analysis, The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators shows you what to look for in new economic data reports, how to react and respond, and how to use or avoid the popular strategies of Wall Street. It includes two new chapters on commodities and fixed-income indicators.
Providing clear and concise analysis, The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators shows you what to look for in new economic data reports, how to react, and how to use or avoid the popular strategies of Wall Street.
This second edition covers everything from GDP and employment, to consumer confidence and spending. It focuses on the most important economic indicators - the absolute must-haves in any analytical toolbox - and writes from the combined perspective of a former trader, academic and current Wall Street economist.
With two new chapters on commodities and fixed-income indicators, this book will give you the insight you need to understand the underlying trends affecting tomorrow’s investment opportunities.
REVIEWS :Hardback, 320 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 156 MM Language English.
Gross domestic product;
Indexes of leading, lagging and coincidentindicators;
The employment situation;
Industrial capacity and capacity utilisation;
Institute for Supply Management indexes;
Manufacturers' shipments, inventories and orders;
Manufacturing and trade inventories and sales;
New residential construction;
Conference Board Consumer Confidence and University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment indexes;
Advance monthly sales for retail and food services;
Personal income and outlays;
Consumer and producer price indexes.
Richard Yamarone, senior vice president and director of economic research at Argus Research Corporation, has more than two decades of experience on Wall Street, analyzing and researching domestic and international economic trends, monitoring monetary and fiscal policy developments, and forecasting the U.S. macroeconomy. He has consulted monetary and fiscal policymakers, and he serves as an economic adviser to several major U.S. corporations.
He has worked for international and domestic money center and investment banks in a variety of senior positions. In addition, he has taught numerous courses on macroeconomics and economic indicators at several colleges and institutions. He has served as president of the prestigious Downtown Economists Club of New York City and is a member of the National Association for Business Economists, the American Economic Association, the New York State Economics Association, and the Money Marketeers of New York University.
At Argus Research, Yamarone is a member of the Investment Policy Committee and is responsible for establishing the firm's top-down economic and interest-rate forecasts, as well as its estimates for monthly economic indicators. He makes frequent appearances on business television and radio shows, and is one of the most quoted economists on the Street today. In 2007, USA Today highlighted Yamarone as one of the top ten economists in the nation.