The practical forecasters' almanac
Subtitle: 137 reliable indicators for investors, hedgers, and speculators
By: edited by Edward Renshaw.
Contributors: Renshaw, Edward F.
Publisher: Business One Irwin
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Homewood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Business forecasting -- United States; Economic indicators -- United States; Business cycles -- United States; Finance -- United States -- Statistics; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981- -- Statistics
Description: Millions of investors and analysts struggle daily to understand the hidden meaning of economic and financial indicators. The Practical Forecasters' Almanac offers you an easy-to-understand-and-use method for tracking the U.S. economy over all phases of the business cycle and predicting what might happen in the stock market. Containing more than 130 tables of statistical indicators, this essential desktop Almanac shows you how to interpret what the indicators are saying.

So you can become a better forecaster. With The Practical Forecasters' Almanac, you'll eliminate the need for complicated statistics and computer programming as you study the U.S. economy and its financial markets. Renshaw reveals the results of more than 30 years of research so that you can discover the story economic and financial indicators have to tell, take advantage of and identify the best investment opportunities afforded by bull markets and avoid some of the.

Trauma associated with higher bear markets; quickly determine what the indicators are saying based on time-tested rules so you are prepared for sudden market moves, and refrain from over-optimism during market booms and excessive pessimism during crashes to gain the full advantage of bargain prices.
Table of contents: title: A users' guide to interpreting the indicators; title: Some lessons from history; title: The Commerce Department's composite indexes; title: Employment and unemployment; title: Production and income; title: Indexes of consumer attitudes; title: Residential construction and investment; title: Inventory investment; title: Stock prices and economic activity; title: Some summary tables for indicators of economic activity; title: Identifying slow growth rates; title: Inflation and financial markets; title: Inflation and its causes; title: Crude oil production in the U.S. and the rest of the world; title: Forecasting the growth rate for nominal GNP; title: Some international comparisons; title: Some recessionary indicators and the stock market; title: Corporate earnings and dividends; title: Summary tables for some stock market indicators; title: Fluctuations in the daily closing values for the S&P index; title: Some exceptional days on Wall Street; title: Some additional crash indicators; title: Stock market volatility; title: Special features section.