Leading Indicators for the 1990s / The Center for International Business Cycle Research - Columbia University
- 1990
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This book describes sweeping changes to the Commerce Department's leading economic indicators. An Overview, A New Index of Net Business Formation, A New Layoff Rate Series, Corporate Bond Prices as a Leading Indicator, A New Monthly Indicator of Profit Margins, Improved Measures of Inventories and Deliveries, A New Industrial Materials Price Index, New Measures of the Growth of Debt, Long-Leading and Short-Leading Indexes, Promptly Available Economic Indicators, A Monthly Index of Final Sales, Comprehensive Versus Cycle-Sensitive Coincident Indicators, New Economic Indicators for the Service Industries, Unit Labor Cost, A Measure of Unemployment Severity, International Economic Indicators, Sources and Descriptions of Indicators Recommended by CIBCR, Index.