The Society for Human Resource Management and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations will collaborate to create the Leading Indicator of National Employment, a new economic indicator to be released on the fourth Tuesday of each month. HR professThe Society for Human Resource Management and Rutgers School of Management...
Steven Hansen submits: "An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's." - Will Rogers Economists use the ten components of the Leading Economic Index to predict and confirm whether we are headed for a recession. To confirm that we have been in one...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OCED releases its latest indices of leading indicators today. Stifle your yawns. This matters. There's a close correlation between changes in the OECD's leading indicator of world activity The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OCED releases...
NAR will launch a new leading indicator February 22 at 10:00 a.m. EST for the commercial real estate market: the Commercial Leading Indicator for Brokerage Activity. The index, to be published quarterly, is designed to provide early signals of turning points between expansions and slowdowns in commercial real estate markets.
This paper describes the process for developing the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity LIRA, designed to estimate quarterly current and future home improvement expenditures by homeowners. The indicator, measured as an annual rate-of-change of its components, provides a short-term outlook of remodeling activity, with a horizon of three quarters. Like...
Byline: Brent Snavely There is at least one leading economic indicator in metro Detroit showing signs of improvement: Some companies are inviting more people to their customer-appreciation parties and are springing for a higher-priced menu than la Byline: Brent Snavely ...
Mar. 22--"Maybe we ought to start an economic indicator of public- relations contracts signed," joked Laer Pearce, owner of an Irvine communications company of the same name. Mar. 22--"Maybe we ought to start an economic indicator of public- relations contracts signed," joked Laer Pearce, owner of...
The Society for Human Resource Management SHRM and the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations have joined forces to create the Leading Indicator of National Employment LINE, a monthly employment indicator. LINE is planned for release th The Society for Human Resource Management SHRM and...
Significant efforts are under way around the world to develop comprehensive key indicator systems for communities, cities, states and nations. Last fall, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD invited more than 500 experts from 4Significant efforts are under way around the world to develop comprehensive key indicator systems...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics, a leading company for TFT-LCD technology, will introduce a new "section display" for mobile phones this fall. This display is divided into an indicator window and a main window and the low-power consumption quality of the new technology corrects the existing imperfections of external...
SYDNEY, May 20 Asia Pulse - A business cycle profile indicator by global funds manager Merrill Lynch suggests Australian economic growth will remain strong over 2002 and that interest rates are expected to increase rapidly. SYDNEY, May 20 Asia Pulse - A business cycle...
This study focuses on hotel properties and describes how they influence the success of a city. Winning Cities is a research program aimed at defining the essence of competitiveness in cities of the future and using this analysis to pick winning locations ahead of the curve for property market players....
This paper has four objectives: First, to provide evidence on the usefulness of the International Reserves and Short-Term External Debt (IR/STED) indicator in predicting economic crises; second, to deepen the analysis of the limitations faced when using this ratio, taking into account both the ideal characteristics its components should display...
EVIDENCE OF A US industrial recovery from a key economic indicator after 18 consecutive months of decline has lit a fire under chemical stocks, propelling many to new 52-week highs. The sector has enjoyed a robust rally from its bottom in late Sept EVIDENCE...
SYDNEY, May 21 Asia Pulse - Australia's economy appeared to reach its low point in the December and March quarters and was now recovering, according to an economic indicator out today. SYDNEY, May 21 Asia Pulse - Australia's economy appeared to reach its low...
SYDNEY, June 18 Asia Pulse - Australia's economic growth is likely to slow next year, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Indicator. SYDNEY, June 18 Asia Pulse - Australia's economic growth is likely to slow next year, according to the latest Merrill Lynch Indicator.
One trick to finding buy and sell signals on the U.S. dollar is to find a correlated indicator of the country's economic condition. Here, we will examine recent correlations between the Nasdaq and the dollar, as the two have tracked -- and at times d One...
Byline: Paul Miller Just as some observers estimate spring's arrival by whether the groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2, many in the catalog industry view list rental activity as an early economic indicator. If this spring's rental activity i ...
This paper tests a wide range of observable variables for their leading-indicator properties with respect to core inflation, including: commodity prices, cost indicators, measures of capacity pressures in labour and product markets, and components of the consumer price index CPI itself. The results show that several indicator models generate lower...