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The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Korea in July 2011

added: 16-09-2011

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Korea declined 0.2 percent and The Conference Board Coincident Economic Index® (CEI) for Korea increased 0.1 percent in July.

Payment Statistics for 2010 

added: 15-09-2011

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published the 2010 statistics on non-cash payments, which comprise indicators on access to and use of payment instruments and terminals by the public, as well as volumes and values of transactions processed through payment systems. Statistics are published for each EU Member State, in addition to EU and euro area aggregates and comparative data.

National Survey Shows Main Street Never Bought Talk of U.S. Recovery

added: 15-09-2011

Raddon Financial Group (RFG), a provider of research-based solutions to financial institutions and a strategic business unit of Open Solutions Inc.®, has found that while Wall Street cheered early reports the recession had ended, Main Street Americans didn’t believe the news. The shaky recovery is now giving way to fears of a double dip recession, and an RFG report titled Wall Street Learns What Main Street Knew All Along shows most Americans don’t expect improvement in the next six months.

Euro Area Securities Issues Statistics: July 2011

added: 15-09-2011

The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents was 3.8% in July 2011, compared with 3.9% in June. For the outstanding amount of quoted shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 1.8% in July 2011, compared with 1.6% in June.

Crisis Reinforces Importance of a Good Education, says OECD

added: 14-09-2011

People with university degrees have suffered far fewer job losses during the global economic crisis than those who left school without qualifications, according to the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance. Good education and skills are crucial to improving a person’s economic and social prospects.

EU27 Surplus in Trade of Goods with South Africa Continued to Grow in the First Half of 2011

added: 14-09-2011

After EU27 trade in goods with South Africa dropped in 2009, both exports and imports showed a renewed growth in 2010. The value of EU27 exports to South Africa increased by one third and reached a peak of 21.4 billion euro in 2010, while imports rose by 20% to 17.9 bn, still not reaching the level of imports recorded in 2006.

OECD Unemployment Rate Stable at 8.2% in July 2011

added: 14-09-2011

The OECD area unemployment rate was steady at 8.2% in July 2011, unchanged for the fifth consecutive month. The Euro area unemployment rate was also unchanged at 10.0% for the second consecutive month and has hovered around this level since December 2010.

Gallup and Healthways Release August 2011 Well-Being Index

added: 14-09-2011

Gallup and Healthways, Inc. released findings from the monthly Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index® (WBI) for August 2011. The overall WBI composite score remains relatively high at 66.1. This is the first year-over-year obesity scores have declined since measurement began in 2008. The obesity score was at 25.9% in August, continuing a slow trend in obesity reduction nationally over the course of 2011.

U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes in August 2011

added: 14-09-2011

U.S. import prices declined 0.4 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, led by a 1.8 percent decrease in fuel prices. The August drop in import prices followed a 0.3 percent rise the previous month. In contrast, prices for U.S. exports rose 0.5 percent after declining 0.4 percent in July.

New Schwab Data Shows Married Americans Think Singles Have Advantage When Planning for Retirement

added: 14-09-2011

The majority of Americans think that planning for retirement is easier for those who are not married, according to Charles Schwab’s latest quarterly retirement pulse survey findings. More than half (53 percent) of married Americans and more than two-thirds (69 percent) of singles say they believe it is easier to make major financial decisions for retirement when there is no spouse in the picture.

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