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Economic Indicators

Most names of the economic indicators are self-explanatory.

Let's with some common economic indicators.

  • Gross Domestic Product:

The total output amount of goods and services of a nation.  A common economic indicator.

  • Gross National Product:

Gross Domestic Products plus exports (domestic residents' income through foreign investments) minus imports (foreign residents' income through domestic investments).  Another common economic indicator.

 

 

  • Consumer Confidence:

A survey based on ~26 Stock Alerts Per Year interviews with around 5000 households.

  • Interest Rates:

Two Useful and Commonly Used Economic Indicators

Long Term Interest Rates:  CD and Savings, Home Equity, Mortgage Rates

Short Term Interest Rates:  Checking, Credit Card, Auto Loan, Money Markets

  • Bond Yields

  • Economist's Big Mac Index

A measure of the cost of a Big Mac in different countries.  Humorous economic indicators of the relative living expenditure in different countries.

  • Retail Sales

  • Institute of Supply Management

Institute of Supply Management keeps track of data from more than 400 companies on production, exports, imports, inventories, prices, and all that relating to manufacturing.  Through the ISM, we could have a picture whether the economy is expanding or contracting.  One of the most commonly used economic indicators.

Less commonly used economic indicators

  • Real Personal Consumption Expenditures: Lesser Known Economic Indicators

  • Farm Income

  • Corporate Profits

  • Employment, Unemployment, and Wages

  • Producer Prices

  • Consumer Prices

  • Money Stock and Debt Measures

  • Bank Credit at All Commercial Banks

  • Earnings Growth Rates

  • Trucking (Alternative economic indicators):

Trucking usually precedes the retail economy by a quarter.  This leading indicator says when there are less trucks on the freeway, there will soon be a economy slowdown.

 

 

 

 

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