Tham khảo tài liệu 'trade secret forex trading using intermarket analysi_3', tài chính - ngân hàng, đầu tư chứng khoán phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | trade secrets Housing Starts and New and Existing Home Sales. These reports provide another gauge of consumers willingness to spend and the increasingly significant effect that housing has on the economy. People have to feel pretty comfortable and confident in their financial position to buy a home. More housing means more demand for raw materials such as lumber or copper and for appliances and all the other items needed to build and maintain a home. Sales of all those items affect economic growth and in turn the course of the . dollar. Durable Goods Orders. With increases in new housing and home sales comes the need to furnish those houses with refrigerators washers dryers other appliances carpets couches and other big-ticket items. Orders for these durable goods provide an indication of how busy factories will be and how much money they will have to feed into the economy. Construction Spending. This report analyzes spending for office buildings shopping malls and other business purposes. As with the housing market and consumer confidence the amount of building construction reflects how confident business owners are about the economy. They are likely to build new facilities or factories only if they think business will be good enough to justify expansion. Institute of Supply Management ISM Index. This is one of the first reports each month that provides a composite index of national manufacturing conditions. Generally analysts view index readings above 50 as an indication of an expanding factory sector and readings below 50 as a sign of a contracting manufacturing sector. Often as manufacturing goes so goes employment which can have a major effect on other components of economic health. ISM reports are also available for various sectors and regions of the country with the Chicago Purchasing Manager Index regarded as an early indicator of the national figure. Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization. Industrial production measures the physical output of .
