Forex Account information
Business
inventories and sales figures consist of data from other reports such as
durable goods orders, factory orders, retail sales, and wholesale inventories
and sales data. Inventories are an important component of the GDP report
because they help distinguish which part of total output produced (GDP)
remained unsold. As a result, this presents us with important clues on the
future direction of the economy. Before computerization allowed companies to
trim inventories and use minimal stock on hand, inventory build up was
indicative of falling demand and potentially a recession.
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Capital
Account
(now
known as Financial Account) Records a nation's incoming and outgoing investment
flows such as payments for entire or parts of companies (direct or portfolio
investment), stocks, bonds, bank accounts, real estate and factories. The
balance of payments is influenced by many factors, including the financial and
economic climate of other countries. See Current Account
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CBI
Surveys
Britain's
largest organization of business employers, aims at creating and sustaining
favorable conditions for their optimal competition and prosperity. The CBI
publishes monthly and quarterly surveys, on past, current and future
assessments on the manufacturing and services sectors. The indexes reflect
respondents' views on various items such as, output, sales, prices,
inventories, and export/import orders.
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Construction
Spending
Construction
spending measures the value of construction during the course of a particular
month.
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Consumer
Price Index (CPI)
Measures
the change in prices at the consumer level for a fixed basket of goods and
services paid for by a typical consumer. Items included in the CPI reflect
prices of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, transportation, health care and all
other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. These items are
divided into seven categories (housing, food, transportation, medical care,
apparel, entertainment, and other), each of which is weighted by their relative
importance. As in the case with the PPI, markets focus on the figure excluding
food and energy items (called the core CPI) for a truer picture of inflationary
forces. Since food and energy prices could fluctuate due to conditions that are
unrelated to the economy-such as weather, oil supply or wars- it is important
to break down the factors impacting the change in prices.
The
most important part of international trade data. It is the broadest measure of
sales and purchases of goods, services, interest payments and unilateral
transfers. The entire merchandise trade balance is contained in the current
account. See Capital Account.