Research
Here is a list of more important web-sites that will help you do investment research on a broader scale:
- CFTC - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Commitments of Traders Reports
- ICSC and Johnsonredbook - Weekly Chain Store Sales
- Federal Reserve - Wealth Effects
- MBAA and Bloomberg and Marketwatch - The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Index
- ABC News - The ABC News Weekly Consumer Comfort Index
- Bloomberg - The Treasury’s Inflation-protected Securities (TIPS)
- U.S. Census Bureau - The Business Inventory-to-sales Ratio
- CIA Factbook - The Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook
- BIS – The Bank For International Settlements Research and Statisitcs
- Fed in Print - Federal Reserve Research
- NAHB - The National Association of Home Builders Monthly Housing Market Index
- Federal Reserve - The Yield Spread between two-year T-notes and the Fed Funds Target
- Bloomberg - The Treasury Yield Curve
- Federal Reserve – Swap Rates
- Bureau of Economic Analysis – Bureau of Economc Analysis
- Federal Reserve - Commercial and Industrial Loans
- Federal Reserve - Commercial Paper Issuance
- American State’s Foreign Trade Information System – Free-Trade Agreements
- World Trade Organization - Entry into the World Trade Organization
- Department of Labor – Initial Jobless Claims
- Baltic Exchange - The Baltic Dry Index
- CRB and JOC - Industrial Materials price index (JOC and CRB raw materials industrials)
- International Reserve and Foreign Currency Liquidity - International Reserves
- Federal Reserve - Bank Credit
- Federal Reserve - Libor Rate
- ISM - The institute for Supply Management’s Monthly Purchasing Managers Index
- NFIB – The National Federation of Independent Business’ Monthly Small Business Optimism Index
- The Transmission effects of Monetary Policy – stock prices, credit spreads, the value of the dollar, lending standards, and capital information.
- Demographics and Birth Statistics and Health and Aging - Demographics
- Bureau of Economic Analysis - Personal Spending on services coupled with the point spread between the ISM’s non-manufacturing and manufacturing indexes
- American Iron and Steel Institute - Steel Output and Steel Scrap Prices
- Ward’s Automotive and Federal Reserve – Automobile Production
- Census Bureau and National Association of Realtors - Inventories of unsold homes
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – Productivity Cycles
- U.S. Geological Survey and Nontradable – Nontradable Commodities
- Art Market - The Art and Collectibles Market
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Los Angeles Port and Long Beach Port
- The Joneses
- Department of the Treasury’s – The U.S. Treasury’s International Capital (TIC) System
- Copper Development Association and Mortgage Bankers Association and National Federation of Independent Businesses and the International Council of Shopping Centers and the National Retail Federation and Fibre Box Association – Trade and Industry Groups
