COMPLETELY UPDATED! THE PLAIN-ENGLISH, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE GUIDE



TO ECONOMIC INDICATORS: WHAT THEY MEAN, AND HOW TO USE THEM!



Every day, investments bounce wildly in response to new economic indicators: statistics that provide crucial clues about the future of the economy and the markets. Now, you can use these indicators to make smarter investment decisions, just like the professionals. You don?t need an economics degree, or a CPA just The Secrets of Economic Indicators, Second Edition!

Using up-to-the-minute examples and real-world stories, former TIME Magazine senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl illuminates every U.S. and foreign indicator that matters right now. You?ll learn where to find them, what their track records are, how to interpret them, and how to use that information to make better decisions. Baumohl has thoroughly updated this best-seller with new data, new examples, new indicators, and revised analyses including a new assessment of the value of yield curves in predicting business cycles. Thousands of investors and business planners swore by the First Edition: these updates make it even more valuable.

* New! Today?s 10 most crucial leading indicators

Better ways to predict economic turning points in time to profit

* Get ahead of the curve with the latest U.S. indicators

* New insights into U.S. employment, monetary policy, inflation, capital flows, and more

* Emerging foreign indicators you need to track

From China to India, Europe to Brazil...and beyond

* Making sense of indicators in conflict

What to do when the numbers disagree

* Finding the data

Free Web resources for the latest economic data

* Which economic indicators really matter right now?

* What do they mean for stocks, bonds, interest rates, currencies...your portfolio?

* How can you use them to make faster, smarter investment decisions?

* Simple, clear, non-technical, friendly, usable...the only book of its kind!

* By Bernard Baumohl, renowned economic analyst and former award-winning TIME Magazine financial journalist



New edition, with extensive new coverage:

* Many new U.S. and global indicators, from new employment reports to box office receipts

* New examples and up-to-the-minute data

* Updated analyses of yield curves and other key metrics

* More international coverage

* New rankings of leading economic indicators, and much more.



Table of Contents:

What?s New in the Second Edition?

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 The Lock-Up

Chapter 2 A Beginner?s Guide: Understanding the Lingo

Chapter 3 The Most Influential U.S. Economic Indicators

Chapter 4 International Economic Indicators: Why Are They So Important?

Chapter 5 Best Web Sites for U.S. Economic Indicators

Chapter 6 Best Web Sit...



About the Author

Bernard Baumohl is managing director of The Economic Outlook Group and oversees its forecasts of economic trends and risks. He also conducts seminars on how to find and utilize economic indicators so that corporate leaders and investors can stay ahead of the business curve. Baumohl was an award-winning TIME Magazine economics reporter for two decades and covered the domestic and international economy from TIME?s New York and Washington bureaus. As an economist for European American Bank, he monitored and developed forecasts of U.S. economic activity. He also served as an analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations. A frequent guest on television and radio, he has lectured on economics at New York University, Duke University, and the New York Institute of Finance. A recipient of the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism, Baumohl has a master?s degree in international affairs and economics from Columbia University.