To provide useful, real-time information to investors, large and small, about business deals, economic indicators and government policy actions.
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To me, the chief role of the CIO is to find what those indicators of overall business are and make sure the company monitors this stuff.
The app mashes up Census data with economic statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides the latest economic indicators that drive business hiring, sales, and production decisions throughout the nation in real time.
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Late in the afternoon on October 22, The World Bank published its 2013 Doing Business Report , a study that rates 185 economies according to 11 indicators relating to the strength of legal institutions relevant to business regulation and the complexity and cost of regulatory processes.
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Leading economic indicators and the Philadelphia Fed business survey both came in below forecasts.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, existing home sales, leading economic indicators and the Philadelphia Fed business survey.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the housing price index, leading economic indicators and the Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the U.S. flash manufacturing PMI, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, the Philadelphia Fed business survey, and the monthly house price index.
Other U.S. economic reports due for release Thursday are many and include the weekly jobless claims report, the consumer confidence index, revised corporate profits, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, the Philadelphia Fed business survey, the monthly house price index, and foreign central bank holdings.
"The trade data (shows) that external demand still remains weak, which is widely-known to the market, so I think investors will pay more attention to indicators that reflect companies' business operations, profitability and revenue growth, such as industrial production and power consumption, before they make up their mind, " said Dongxing Securities analyst Sun Zheng.
Short term indicators such as industrial production and business surveys suggest that Indian economic activity has remained weak in recent months.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, leading economic indicators, and the Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, leading economic indicators index and the Philadelphia Fed business survey.
In the first few weeks of 2013, key indicators such as unemployment figures, business confidence and inflation have shown that the eurozone may be over the worst.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the U.S. flash manufacturing PMI, the monthly house price index, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, and the Philadelphia Fed business survey.
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John Mezias and Bill Starbuck published several articles in which they showed how people do not even know basic facts about their own companies, such as the sales of their own business unit, error rates, or quality indicators.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the U.S. flash manufacturing PMI, leading economic indicators, and the Philadelphia Federal Reserve business outlook survey.
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It also provides a variety of views into the business and helps to maintain focus across all the important indicators.
Such hiring indicators are part of the growing optimism small-business owners have about the overall state of their firms.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, leading economic indicators, existing home sales and the Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey.
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Growth in all three of these metrics accelerated in December and we believe these trends are important indicators of the long term growth potential of our business.
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The underlying indicators do not account for all factors important to doing business, such as macroeconomic conditions, market size, workforce skills and security, all factors where the U.S. would outperform the three countries that are ahead of it in the rankings.
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Companies should have key indicators of their performance that they monitor to see how their business is going.
The World Bank's in-house "watchdog, " an entity called the Independent Evaluation Group, recently lambasted Doing Business, claiming that there was no significant relationship between the publication's indicators and economic growth rates, even though the countries with the lowest rankings usually have the worst long-term records for economic growth.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the consumer price index, the flash manufacturing PMI, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, the weekly DOE liquid energy stocks report, and the Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey.
Although the four indicators described above are the most important measures considered by the NBER in developing its business cycle chronology, there is no fixed rule about which other measures contribute information to the process.
The leading indicators the OECD uses for the UK include new car registrations, the Confederation of British Industry's business climate survey, a measure of the stocks of finished goods and a measure of consumer confidence, all weighted, added together and compared to an estimation of the trend.
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