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This article highlights how certain macroeconomic indicators in India are suggesting that the Indian Economy may be recovering from a "valley" in India's Business Cycle. Aggregate Demand is increasing due to the increase in consumption (the article specifies tourism and domestic air travel). Furthermore, "foreign trade related indicators" have increased hinting at an increase in the aggregate supply of India as well.

This article discusses how a survey suggests that the confidence among UK businesses hit its lowest level in at least 21 years last month. Therefore, the economy will struggle to grow in the first quarter of this year. Consequently, there was a zig zag in economic growth in several businesses in the UK, therefore, the government must plan to expedite growth.

The article I chose shows the difference in how the governmet treats businesses. They penalise businesses with negative externalities but don't reward businesses with positive externalities.

This article suggests that the lack of recovery from the recession might lead to weakness in the American business cycle. The potential is not present as it was before the recession, and that is what concerns the author of this article. It will be very interesting to follow the course of the American business cycle (economic growth), and if this article is right, it opens for even bigger Chinese dominance in the economic world.

Fall in demand for durable goods (orders for durable goods in the US fell 5.2% in January) means also fall in aggregate demand. Falling aggregate demand - the total spending on goods and services implies firms will start to lay off workers and unemployment rates are likely to rise. According to the business cycle, at current point there is a negative output gap, because economy is producing below its long-term trend economy can sustain.

You don't have to read much of this article to understand the gist of what the author is saying. As we all know, the business cycle fluctuates like a sin graph, except, at the same time, the real GDP steadily increases as more innovations are made the things can be done for cheaper. Paying attention to those ups and downs are important for governments because, when the downs occur, the government needs to put in more spending to cover for private industries and to try and stimulate the economy. However, what the US government has failed to do now-a-days is lower spending when the economy has built its way back up and above where it was before. This isn't because US citizens will start mass protests in the streets against a higher sales tax or less funding for the public education system, but because officials want to ignore the fundamental concept that, just like the economy went down before, so shall it in the future times.

We've read about recessions and the business cycle, but never about double recessions! apparently this phenomenon was unfamiliar to Britain too, and their first just hit.

The article talks about the Boeing 787, which is creating a loss for airlines all over the world. There is less supply for the 787 flights, and people are scared therefore there is also a loss in demand for flights.

Clinton Cards has warned that the outlook for its full-year results is worse than it had previously expected. The company has lost money and had to close 34 stores to start recovery.

The part which I believe is most important about this article is its demonstration of a business strategizing around macroeconomic change and not just microeconomic change. We mostly only think of this stuff on the small scale, pretending like we live in a global community in which a company can survive purely by being better than its competitors and not by having a stronger sub economy. The fact is, even in our growingly international market, that just isn't the case. Countries are like microeconomic ecosystems inside of one big habitat. Just because one has food in it and the other doesn't won't mean that the inhabitants of second ecosystem can just move to the first.

The article discusses the total sale of houses (a good) is rising in the economy in the UK. Due to this rise by 5%, the economy was able to grow and increase. The real estate businesses and bank of England are able to work together to get maximum profit from the rise in sales from houses.

There has been an increase in how the amount of houses sold, which created an improvement in the economy of the UK. The increase was created by the increase of supply of mortgage, which increase the possibility for the population to buy a house.

As measured by gross domestic product, the Customs Union in its three-member format of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan still appears tiny beside the European Union. The output of the Customs Union states was $US2.3 trillion last year, compared with $US16.6 trillion for the EU, according to the International Monetary Fund. Ukraine's economic output of $US176 billion last year would only modestly bolster the Russian bloc.

This article is about how the WTO has hammered out it's first global commercial deal. It is about the conference that the deal was made in and contains a few notes about what is in the deal

This article is about the UK and the EU and how the UK could benefit more by in fact leaving the EU.

This article talks about how a few larger electricity and gas companies have increased their prices after the news about a cold and bitter winter in the UK. If we apply this to what we have read about this week, they know that the demand for fuel in houses will increase, but with a increased price they can avoid shortage during this period of time, hopefully. At leas this is what they try to do. They also know it is profitable for them, since people will still need the fuel due to the cold, so the income for the company gets higher.

The article I chose describes the housing price in the UK. It only changed very slightly so you could say that the housing price stayed stable. This means that the people living in the UK are willing to pay the same amount for their house and are able to do so. The market for houses is in equilibrium.

This article mainly focuses on China's economic growth and its fast approach to what could put it's economy in an equilibrium state."The rate, the spot rate and future rate, determined by the market supply and demand, basically are very close to the equilibrium rate," said Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China. He also warns that at this time China is trying to maintain low prices and if external governments begin to have inflation problems this could potentially create problems for China's economy. This comment was a directly linked with China's exchange rate against the US dollar, an issue that has yet to be addressed.

China is the biggest steel producer in the world. However the demand for steel decreases and therefore the price decreased by 25%.

This article talks about how the FCA plans to make the competition a little more intense. By doing this, they plan to have companies sell more of the products in demand and less of the ones that are less likely to sell, thus creating more profit for a company. This causes other companies to try to challenge them, growing the market/economy. The FCA is also not allowing companies to hurt a person financial, trying to grow the market.

This article talks about the crisis in the UK, and how the stores keep on closing and will keep on closing if the government doesn't freeze rates by 2013. Therefore, this article is not about something that the government has done (putting taxes) but something it needs to do to help the market in the UK.