Economic indicator
There are economic and business indicators. The latter are dealt with in Article operating performance measure.
A macro-level indicator (also called economic indicator or macro-economic indicator ) is a measure that statements regarding future economic development or the economic situation in general economies of allowed and in particular from the macroeconomic theory, or is derived from research. Such indicators can be the basis for the preparation of forecasts (see also econometrics ).
Background
Economic indicators are often used in the valuation of shares, because conclusions about the performance of individual industrial sectors are drawn from the overall economic development, in turn, affect the business prospects of individual companies. They enhance the visualization of macroeconomic developments and are especially needed where complex causal relationships to be presented in a condensed form.
A distinction indicators:
- According to the described size in volume and price or cost indicators
- According to the time before or follow-up to the facts described in early, presence and lagging indicators,
- According to absolute values (eg: status of an equity index ) or growth rate ( inflation rate )
Many indicators - for example, the Ifo business climate index - will be published regularly. Overviews of the upcoming releases have release calendar.
Economic indicators
Among the most important economic indicators means the indicators have a significant impact on developing economies or one that is believed by market participants. Of great importance are economic indicators can be particularly seen from the fact that the publication of such a clearly visible immediate impact on the national or international equity and bond markets, has provided these vary in severity from the expectations of market participants. These expectations are being published of economic institutions, economic research departments in major banks and major financial newspapers in advance.
Quantity indicators
Quantity indicators provide information on the quantity development of a reference object information.
Examples are:
- Unemployment Unemployment in the Netherlands
- Labor Statistics of the United States
Price indicators
Price indicators inform you of the price level and the development of a reference object.
Examples are:
- Stock prices ( market value of equity )
- Bond prices German bond index
- Case-Shiller Index
- FHFA House Price Index
- EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
- Consumer price index for Germany
- FAO Food Price Index
- Gold Price
- Oil price
- Palladium Price
- Platinum price
- Silver Price
- Euro Currency Index
- Euro Effective Exchange Rate Index
- Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index
- U.S. Dollar Index
Leading indicators
Leading indicators (also leading indicators or anticipatory indicators) give hints on the future development of the economic situation.
Examples are:
- Share index List of stock indices
- PMI for Germany
- Empire State Index ( New York area )
- Philly Fed Index ( Philadelphia area )
- Purchasing Managers Index ( PMI U.S. )
- Business climate index for Germany ( ifo)
- NAHB / Wells Fargo Housing Market Index ( business expectations of U.S. Contractors )
- Consumer Confidence Index ( U.S. consumer confidence )
- Consumer climate index for Germany (GfK )
- University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index ( U.S. consumer confidence index )
- Baltic Dry Index ( Global Shipping costs)
- Dow Jones Transportation Average ( U.S. carrier)
- Continuous Commodity Index
- Dow Jones -UBS Commodity Index
- Rogers International Commodity Index
- S & P GSCI
- Thomson Reuters / Jefferies CRB Index
Presence indicators
Presence indicators (also concurrent indicators, presence indicators or Istindikatoren called ) show the current economic development.
Examples are:
- Current consumption figures
- Gross Domestic Product - GDP ( in one month ) or gross national income
- Human Development Index - Human Development Index
- Industrial production
- Capacity utilization
- Short-time working
- Stocks
- Prices
- Savings rate
- Interest
Lagging Indicators
Lagging indicators (also lagging indicators or lagging indicators ) indicate how the economy has evolved in the past.
Examples are:
- Unemployment rate
- Employment within an industry
- Gross Domestic Product - GDP ( one year ) or gross national income
- Inflation
- Bankruptcies
- Wage developments
- Price developments
- State tax revenues
- Interest rate development
The division is not always possible, as you can see it in the gross domestic product ( depending on the beinhaltetem period belongs to a different group).
Other
- Human_Development_Index ( Human Development Index )
- BERI index (index on the country risk analysis)
- Big Mac index ( an indicator of the purchasing power of a currency)
- Economic Diversification Index (measure of the economic strength of a country )
- Misery index (the sum of inflation and unemployment rates )
- Genuine Progress Indicator ( Genuine Progress Indicator )
- Grubel -Lloyd index ( measures the extent of intra- sectoral trade )
- Rosenbluth index ( index of absolute concentration in markets )
- Ship Index Baltic Clean Tanker Index
- Baltic Dirty Tanker Index
- Baltic Dry Index
- HARPEX
- Howe Robinson Container Index
The so-called six-pack to the Advanced Stability and Growth Pact of the European Union contains a so-called scoreboard with indicators that warn of disorders of macroeconomic equilibria.