Overview
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Learn how to find and interpret data about key economic indicators, such as unemployment, GDP, and home sales, in order to make better professional and financial decisions.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to the course
- What are economic reports?
- The importance of economic reports
- Impact on central banks and markets
- Impact on sectors and companies
- Impact on jobs and professional opportunities
- Sector impact on investments
- What is inflation?
- Consumer price index
- Macro impact on investments
- Personal consumption expenditures
- Pulling inflation indicators together
- Interest rates and yield curve
- Producer price index
- Housing overall
- MBA mortgage applications
- S&P Case-Shiller index
- Housing starts
- Building permits
- New home sales
- GDP overview
- GDP vs. GNP
- Construction spending
- Existing home sales
- Pending home sales
- GDP: Consumption
- What is fiscal policy?
- GDP: Net exports/trade
- GDP: Government spending
- GDP: Investment
- GDP: Regional Fed estimates
- ISM: Manufacturing index
- ISM: Nonmanufacturing index
- Regional monthly manufacturing Fed data
- Consumer confidence
- Auto sales
- Industrial production
- Retail sales
- Leading indicators
- IMF quarterly GDP forecasts
- Monetary policy
- Employment and jobs report
- Jobless claims
- Weekly energy reports
- German Ifo and Eurozone PMI
- China PMI
- Fed decisions and the dot plot
- Fed press conference and testimony
- OPEC decisions
