Week Ahead APAC Economic Preview: Week of 17 December 2018
Central banks to dominate market attention in coming week, withFOMC and BOE the key meetings to watch In Asia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan also decide onmonetary policy Taiwan export orders Special focus on India's central bank Several major central bank meetings will command marketattention in the coming week, with policymakers in the US
IHS Markit US PMI signals GDP growth rate slowing close to 2.0% in December
Flash PMI signals weakest growth for one-and-a-half years inDecember PMI indicates GDP growth rate close to 2.5% in Q4, but momentumdown to 2.0% towards year end IHS Markit survey paints far weaker picture than ISM Flash PMI™ survey data from IHS Markit show the US economylosing further growth momentum in December. While the latest datarounded off
Annual growth in labour costs at 2.5% in euro area
Hourly labour costs rose by 2.5% in the euro area (EA19) and by 2.7% in the EU28 in the third quarter of 2018, compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the second quarter of 2018, hourly labour costs increased by 2.3% and 2.7% respectively. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Origina
Euro area job vacancy rate at 2.1%
The job vacancy rate in the euro area (EA19) was 2.1% in the third quarter of 2018, stable compared with the previous quarter and up from 1.9% in the third quarter of 2017, according to figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the EU28, the job vacancy rate was 2.2% in the third quarter of 2018, stable compare
Central banks to dominate market attention in coming week, withFOMC and BOE the key meetings to watch In Asia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan also decide onmonetary policy Taiwan export orders Special focus on India's central bank Several major central bank meetings will command marketattention in the coming week, with policymakers in the US
To what extent do house prices depend on the prices of other properties? Why are there differences between the list price of a house and the transaction price? And how much power do project developers have in certain real estate markets? These were some of the questions discussed by international researchers of the Leibniz Network “Real Estate Mark
Heike Ehrhard successfully completed her dual bachelor’s degree programme in business information systems at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim and at ZEW in autumn 2018. In October, she joined the ZEW General Services Department in the area of digitalisation as a staff member. ZEW congratulates Ms. Ehrhard on completing h
In 2018, 26% of EU enterprises with at least 10 persons employed purchased cloud computing services. Cloud computing usage grew rapidly over the last few years, as in 2014 it stood at 19% and in 2016 at 21%. Large enterprises use cloud computing much more (56% of enterprises employing 250 persons or more) than small ones (23% of enterprises employi
Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) is a measure of material welfare of households. Across the Member States in 2017, AIC per capita expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) varied from 54% of the European Union (EU) average in Bulgaria to 132% in Luxembourg. Original link
SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES FINANCING RESOURCES AND INVESTMENT, ORIGINAL, CURRENT PRICES Non-financial corporations Financial corporations General government Household Total National Rest of world $b $b $b $b $b $b Financing resources Net saving (a) -17.7 19.9 -3.3 23.8 22.8 12.6 plus Consumption of fixed capital 39.3 3.1 9.9 29.9 82.2 - Gross saving 21.
