Economic Indicators
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
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
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
Taught by
Jason Schenker
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