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| Liber8® Economic Information Newsletter |
What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us? — January 2012
To those unfamiliar with financial and economic lingo, the terms bandied about in the news can sometimes make no sense. The January 2012 Liber8 Newsletter, "What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?" offers some help with explanations of common terms. The essay is accompanied by a table of terms, definitions, and the significance of each to the broader economy.View Classroom Edition
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A database of over 41,000 economic time series (economic data provided for a period of time, for example: quarterly data for the last 10 years) gathered in one convenient location. Contains national, international and regional data from 38 different sources. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats, graph data series, customize, save and reuse graphs, and have graphs automatically update when new data is released.
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U.S. Financial Data
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Kansas City Financial Stress Index
a monthly measure of stress in the U.S. financial system based on 11 financial market variables. A positive value indicates that financial stress is above the long-run average, while a negative value signifies that financial stress is below the long-run average.
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| International Research |
"International regulatory cooperation after the crisis"
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By Richard Heckinger
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Fed Letter, Issue 292, November 2011.
The heads of state of a broad coalition of nations, the Group of Twenty (G-20), met in September 2009 in Pittsburgh to chart the course of recovery from the financial crisis and set internationally agreed-upon objectives for the reform of regulatory policy.
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"Measuring Financial Market Stress"
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By Kevin L. Kliesen and Douglas C. Smith
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, January 2010.
Although the St. Louis Financial Stress Index suggests the level of financial stress in the markets has declined significantly since September 2008, the stress level remains modestly higher than average.
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"The KCFSI suggests financial stress turned back down in November but remained above its long-run average"
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By Bill Medley
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Kansas City Financial Stress Index (KCFSI) News Release, December 8, 2011.
The KCFSI was 0.26 in November, down from 0.50 in October. November’s decline was the first since May. Despite the decrease, the KCFSI remained above its long-run average of zero for the fourth consecutive month.
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