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I question the value of “Bold/Weak” as an axis. but it’s still interesting to look at. Related CNNMoney article.
More interesting: Change in stock price one year later, versus level of federal assistance:
Brookings is tracking the economic health of 100 USA metro areas using a variety of indicators. Below are the maps for overall performance and REOs (there are more on the site). You can look up summary reports for individual cities. Also interesting are the rankings, which appear in the appendix of the full report.
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Source: Economist
21 Sep 2009Two employment graphics from the WSJ:
Financial sector job losses (more spread out than I would have suspected). Related article.
State-by-State, with a timeline slider Dec 07 through August.
Interactive tool for grasping what the G20 has said, and done, over the last three summits.
In depth G20 coverage from the FT is available here.
Related article. Once again, spotted over at Infectious Greed (I really should go there more often).
So many data releases focus (correctly) on percentage changes m-to-m or y-to-y; but once in a while it’s useful to look at the actual numbers. Below is the S&P, Employment, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies.
Move the timeline slider and watch former Lehman employees scatter to their new jobs. Click on blocks to see individual stories.
Call up monthly slivers of data and related news for 6 financial market indicators (dow, treasury yields, libor, commercial yields, CDS spreads, mortgage backed spreads).
In: Employment Finance Innovative Interactive Reference Updated regularly US Economy
15 Sep 2009Here is this month’s update of one of my favorite presentations of economic indicators, from Russell Investments. Includes trending, useful popups, drill down links to historical data, and good descriptions of each indicator. It’s really everything an economic dashboard should look like. (ok, maybe they could animate it over time.)
Updated July 29th. The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”.
The FT has some nice charts on proposed changes to financial oversight. Related article.
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