The Empire State Manufacturing Index (ESMI) is a survey given out by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to manufacturing companies within the state of New York. It measures how the people who run these companies feel towards the economy. The most watched statistic of the report is the business confidence index as it provides the general sentiment of the manufacturing industry
Empire State Manufacturing Index
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The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) measures the degree of optimism that consumers feel about the overall state of a country’s economy, as well as their own personal financial situation. The...
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The ISM manufacturing index, also known as the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), monitors the health of U.S. manufacturers by surveying purchasing managers.
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Risk sentiment is a term used to describe how financial market participants (traders and investors) are behaving and feeling. What traders choose to buy or sell means balancing how much they are prepared to lose with how much they hope to earn. You can look at risk sentiment as the expression of traders’ and investors’ willingness to […]
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The Employment Situation report provides insight into the U.S. job market such as the monthly change in nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate.
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Sentiment, or market sentiment, refers to the highly subjective feeling about the state of a market. Market sentiment represents the mood of financial markets and the general feeling among traders,...