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Yayoi Tanikawa

BBC News - Japan retail sales and household spending continues in April - 2 views

  • sales and household spending continues in April Japan has been trying to boost domestic demand to sustain its economic growth Continue reading the main story Related Stories Sales tax hike is a bitter pill
  • continues
  • sales
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  • Retail sales climbed by 5.8% from a year earlier, while household spending rose by 2.6%.
  • Policymakers have been trying to boost domestic sales to offset weaker exports.
  • pan has been trying to boost domestic demand to sust
  • Car subsidies
  • t consumer sentiment was also improving
    • Yayoi Tanikawa
       
      if consumer sentiment improves, they will be more willing to consume, therefore increasing AD
  • Last year people didn't travel much after the earthquake, but this year we see people willing to spend more money on vacations
  • actually 0.3% lower in April than they were in Marc
  • retail sales were
  • rate of unemployment ticked slightly higher in April, hitting 4.6% compared with 4.5% in March.
  • "We would need to see an increase in salaries for consumption to improve further,
Nofar Lapidot

BBC News - McDonald's profits boosted by store revamps - 2 views

  • 13 months rose 8.9%
    • Nofar Lapidot
       
      Shift outward in demand
  • solid sales growth of 5%
    • Nofar Lapidot
       
      shift out in demand even though economic downturn in europe. Possibly because McDonalds is cheap making it popular.
  • 1,300 new stores
    • Nofar Lapidot
       
      expansion in supply
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    Increase in demand for McDonalds even though there is an economic downturn in Europe.
Nayana Devadas

Oil Gains a Third Day on Demand Outlook as Supplies Drop - Bloomberg - 2 views

    • Nayana Devadas
       
      demand- micro
  • Crude inventories
    • Nayana Devadas
       
      inventory- supply- storage 
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  • crude
  • Futures
  • 75 cents to $85.04
  • Brent oil for July settlement gained 26 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $99.10 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.
  • New York crude is set to rebound based on a technical indicator that shows a decline of more than 20 percent fro
  • bear market conditions
  • Futures
  • Futures
  • “The inventory decline doesn’t change the overall outlook much, but at least it’s headed in the right direction,”
  • The relative strength index, or RSI, has been below 30 since May 11, signaling that oil is poised to climb, said Richard Ross, a technical analyst at brokerage Auerbach Grayson & Co. in New York. The 14-day RSI, which identifies possible turning points in markets, dropped to 16.3 on June 1, the lowest level since February 1986.
Nich Fabrici

India Seeks Increase in Penalty on Coal India - WSJ.com - 2 views

    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Increase in Penalty Due to Decrease in supply.
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Title is nearly insignificant. Focusing on the decrease in supply to the consumer, and not the increase in penalty.
  • Coal India,
  • 80% of India's coal needs
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  • stagnation in coal output growth
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Growth of Firm is Decreasing, decrease in supply. Also meets 80 percent of coal needs, demand is high
  • environment clearances
  • supply shortfall
  • educed electricity generation
  • ndia's 200-gigawatt electricity generation capacity is coal-based,
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      They are a MONOPOLY- they rule more then 50% of they Coal Market in India
  • increased supply of coal
  • economic growth
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Although Economic Growth is Macro, it shows a strong correlation between the two.
  • The government earlier this year directed Coal India to sign pacts with the utilities that became operational after April 2009,
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Government has Intervened- declaring that it will be a Monopoly after signing packs.
  • as was the case in the previous supply pacts.
  • 14 power producers out of a total of about 40 utilities that are likely to sign pacts.
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      MAXIMUM PRICE  SUBSIDIES?
Edward Pearson

Euro-Region Inflation Rate Declines More Than Forecast - Bloomberg - 2 views

  • fell to 2.4 percent from 2.6 percent
    • Joe Kanagawa
       
      Inflation rate has gone down, but it's still positive, so "disinflation" is happening in the said region.
    • Edward Pearson
       
      below 5% - deflation possible in future
  • Crude-oil prices have dropped about 16 percent in the past two months, easing inflation pressures
    • Joe Kanagawa
       
      The type of inflation the region is in could be "cost-push inflation" due to changes in the prices of oil affecting the inflation rate.
    • Edward Pearson
       
      decrease in oil - oil would be part of basket of goods for CPI - inflation could be higher because governments could underrate the spending on oil and change figures 
  • Still, data today showed the German unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent in May from 6.8 percent
    • Joe Kanagawa
       
      Fall in unemployment rate will normally cause the inflation rate to increase, but in this case, it didn't
    • Edward Pearson
       
      -possible shift in SRPC 
    • Edward Pearson
       
      -low inflation and low unemployment is ideal for economy 
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  • German business confidence fell more than economists forecast in May,
  • consumer spending also rose more than projected last month, increasing 0.6 percent
Melanie Arxhoek

Mass strikes across India over fuel prices - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English - 2 views

    • Melanie Arxhoek
       
      The economic growth in India has slowed down as the figures show for the first quarter of this year as it only expanded by 5.3%. There could be different reasons for this.
  • The strike came on the same day as shock economic growth figures for the January-March quarter showed the slowest quarterly expansion in nine years, of 5.3 per cent
  • The listless economy, high inflation and a series of corruption scandals have weakened the coalition government headed by the 79-year-old Singh and his Congress party
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    • Melanie Arxhoek
       
      Here some problems are mentioned, which would impact the recent decrease in growth and thus the rise in fuel costs.
  • Last week, Indian state-run oil firms announced the sharpest jump in petrol prices in nearly a decade to offset growing losses caused by subsidised rates
  • Once taxes are included, the price increase of Rs6.28 (11 US cents) per litre will result in a Rs7.5-rupee rise for consumers in cities such as Delhi
    • Melanie Arxhoek
       
      This further expands into the reasons of why the fuel prices have risen.
    • Melanie Arxhoek
       
      In this sentence we finally get some statistics that we could use to draw a graph and show the shift in price.
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    11% increase in fuel costs, going from Rs 6.28 per litre to Rs 7.5. Growth figures for the first quarter showed the slowest expansion in 9 years of 5.3%. Listless economy, high inflation and corruption has weakened the economy. Annual inflation is currently at 7%
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    Article I will use for Macro IA
Isabella Yamamoto

Paul Krugman attacks Britain's austerity drive as 'deeply destructive' | Business | gua... - 2 views

  • increasing it by 2% of GDP
    • Isabella Yamamoto
       
      I can talk about the multiplier effect and how increasing in spending can lead to a boost in AD
  • austerity policy as "deeply destructive"
    • Isabella Yamamoto
       
      I can look at the argument made for increasing spending during a recession, and look at the argument made against.
  • to do so would be to admit its mistake
    • Isabella Yamamoto
       
      Perhaps I could look at how political interests can mean that policies do not always pass policies that are in the best interest of a countries economy.
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  • 30% of unemployed people having been out of work for 52 weeks or more, compared with 9.5% in 2008.
    • Isabella Yamamoto
       
      How austerity measures reduce spending in public + private sectors. How that leads to more jobless. Can also look at structural unemployment and how AD will continue to fall because of lower income per capita.
Emily Hoshi

Panasonic looking to slash HQ personnel | The Japan Times Online - 2 views

  • Panasonic looking to slash HQ personnel
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      Panasonic (oligopolistic firm) is considering to cut workers due to recession, so microeconomics on oligopoly with the x-axis with quantity and y-axis with price can be made.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      In the end, is it possible to find a way to NOT cut workers?
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      In your IA maybe you could add a simple note saying how long the recession has been going on.
  • reduce costs and streamline the organization
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      I assume this section is saying that they are trying to reduce costs of production and increase efficiency. However, in most cases if a firm tries to lower the price they would lose customers due to price war between other firms that produce homogenous goods so it would be risky to change prices when its oligopoly. Although, their main aim is to recover its business so they are trying to cut many workers, reduce costs and increase efficiency.
  • drastic workforce downsizing at its Osaka
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      Brings marginal cost shift inwards and by that also the average cost shift inwards as well 
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      Slush in labours at Panasonic Corps in Osaka 
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  • recovery of its business performance at an early date by speeding up decision-making, in addition to cost cuts after logging a massive group net loss in the business year
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      Same points made from the previous paragraph, due to recession they are aiming to increase efficiency and cut costs
  • redirecting company resources into new growth areas
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      I assume that "new growth areas" is to move the company to a more rural area because having a business at a city has a high land cost where rural areas can be much cheaper therefore, this can benefit the firm by having the cost curves to shift outward. 
  • energy-efficient products and solar panels
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      One of the factors of production, capital by having new technology such as (mentions here) solar panels. It reduces the light energy use, etc costs in the company.
  • loss of ¥772.17 billion
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      This can be shown on demand and supply where supply shifts outward, showing the loss of 772.17 billion yen on the price axis 
  • 36,000 over the year to some 330,000
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      This can be shown on phillips curve (?) to show the increase in unemployment rate by having the aggregate demand to shift inwards. 
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    this is my IA
Risako Okamoto

Gold Extends Decline as Dollar Strength Counters Stimulus Bets - Bloomberg - 2 views

  • Gold Extends Decline as Dollar Strength Counters Stimulus Bets
    • Risako Okamoto
       
      supply and demand
  • euro weakened
    • Risako Okamoto
       
      money value went down
  • Gold fel
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  • however the dollar’s strength will continue to act as a resistance to rising prices,
Edward Pearson

BBC News - Samsung and LG fined by regulator for price fixing - 2 views

  • secret meetings in 2008 and 2009
  • The companies face a penalty of 44.6bn won ($39m; £25.2m), said the Fair Trade Commission (FTC).
    • Edward Pearson
       
      -highly illegal -inefficient, lack of competition 
  • "Their price rigging caused damage to many consumers by leading the prices of washing machines, flat-panel TVs and laptop computers to rise
    • Edward Pearson
       
      effectively monopoly - easier to controll prices -non-kinked demand curve
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  • South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics for conspiring to fix the prices of some appliances.
    • Edward Pearson
       
      explicit collusion - effectively becomes a monopoly
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    This could be my IA article - colluding oligopoly and monopoly
Tessa Jalink

Australian economy good enough to keep interest rates on hold | Television New Zealand ... - 2 views

  • out weaker commodity prices and the mining
  • mining boom
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Concerns that mining boom is over. This would cause a reduction in GDP
  • hold off on another rate cut
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Further reduction in RoI is not necessary
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  • softness
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Economy is unstable, possibly due to uncertainty in mining?
  • investment and exports
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Increase in I + X, resulting in an increase in AD
  • interest rate cuts
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Interest rates have been cut over the past year. 
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      This should cause an increase in C, resulting in an increase in AD. 
  • potential for rises
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Very positive outlook.
  • growth and inflation
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Inflation & GDP growth is expected
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Caused by previous RoI cuts.
  • mining boom.
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Concerns about mining boom, global uncertainty caused business confidence to decrease.
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Resulted in a decrease in I
  • mining
  • employment.
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Increase in employment caused rise in business conditions.
Faizal Zubir

Mid East gas demand to outpace supply - IEA | Energy & Oil | Reuters - 2 views

  • demand to rise by 79 billion cubic metres (bcm) or 20 percent from 2011 to 2017
    • Faizal Zubir
       
      A shift on demand curve.
  • Middle Eastern demand for natural gas is likely to rise faster than supply over the next five years
    • Faizal Zubir
       
      A rise in price.
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  • In a few countries, gas demand has therefore to be curtailed," the report says.
    • Faizal Zubir
       
      Demand has to decreased, ads for other alternatives.
  • Middle Eastern governments will have to either curb demand or import a lot more expensive gas.
    • Faizal Zubir
       
      Evaluation in which one is better.
  • low gas prices encourage consumption and discourage production.
    • Faizal Zubir
       
      Reason explaining the higher demand and low supply.
Isabella Yamamoto

California cigarette tax vote too close to call - CNN.com - 1 views

  • cigarettes
  • The money is going to be invested in cancer research here in California and on tobacco prevention
  • stop kids from smoking
    • Isabella Yamamoto
       
      Higher prices will be a disincentive to buying cigarettes 
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  • it will heavily affect poorer Americans, who are more likely to smoke
    • Isabella Yamamoto
       
      Poorer Americans have more inelastic PED's
  • the state's ban on smoking in public places,
  • Some grant proposals that currently go unfunded would find a source of revenue, he said.
Joe Kanagawa

Coca-Cola cuts prices, Pepsi may follow suit - Economic Times - 1 views

  • Coca-Cola cuts prices, Pepsi may follow suit
    • Joe Kanagawa
       
      gonna be doing this one
Emily Hoshi

The 86 million invisible unemployed - May. 3, 2012 - 1 views

  • population growth
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      :D?
  • labor force is now at its smallest size since the 1980s when compared to the broader working age population.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      One of the reasons to why there as an increase in unemployment.
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      Two graphs with the unemployment in micro perspective graph and the boarder working age population (basically population graph of workers) graph to compare and analyze the effects 
  • Last year, 86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn't keep up a regular job search. Most of them were either under age 25 or over age 65.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Could use the numbers and percentages to create a graph.
    • Emily Hoshi
       
      This can be shown with unemployment in microeconomics perspective graph
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  • that doesn't include the millions of nonworking adults who aren't even looking for a job anymore.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Since unemployment is when a worker is willing and able to work at a given wage rate but there is no job (work) available, when they have given up to look for a job they are not counted in the unemployment rate anymore.
  • unemployment rate is falling
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Could show the unemployment fall on a graph.
  • A person is counted as part of the labor force if they have a job or have looked for one in the last four weeks.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Definition
  • 63.6% of Americans over the age of 16 fell into that category
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Again, could use the statistics to show how it has hit a very low labour force participation rate.
  • Only people looking for work are considered officially unemployed.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Again, definition of unemployment.
  • The unofficially unemployed
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      It is not that the people who were unemployed were not looking for jobs at all.
  • weren't consistently looking for one
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      The reason for them being "unofficially unemployed".
  • Older people, ages 65 and over, account for more than a third.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      They can live on either their savings or the money from the government. 
  • Young people between 16 and 24 make up another fifth.
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Off for education?
  • unemployed
    • Ayaka Matsumura
       
      Types of unemployment: structural, frictional, cyclical, seasonal, natural rate
  • recession
Nich Fabrici

US economy points to jobless misery | Latest Business & Australian Stock market News | ... - 1 views

  • US economy points to jobless misery
  • US economy grew
  • slowly
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  • 1.9 percent in the first quarter, instead of the 2.2 percent pace initially estimated last month.
  • Payrolls firm ADP reported private-sector employment rose by a modest 133,000 jobs in May, well below expectations, from April's 113,000 number.
  • US unemployment benefits - indicating the pace of layoffs - rose by 10,000 to 383,000 in the week ending May 26,
  • 2.0 percent,
    • Derek Schwung
       
      New jobs --> indicator of lower unemployment 
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      More jobs should stimulate the second quarter Economic growth, but didn't.
  • The four-week moving average also increased
    • Derek Schwung
       
      Find out what the four-week moving average is, could possibly be interesting 
  • The lackluster data came just five months ahead of the November presidential election in a race dominated by high unemployment concerns.
    • Derek Schwung
       
      Maybe just a political move? 
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      or an economic fault? need deeper research on this point.
  • The first-quarter slowdown was due in part to declines in private inventory investment and a pick-up in imports,
    • Derek Schwung
       
      Causes as to why it happened
  • stalled with growth at about 2.0 percent,
    • Derek Schwung
       
      Growth is stalled Could talk about what no growth would result in. 
  • Fresh jobs indicators for May on Thursday suggested that second-quarter economic conditions would do little to spur recovery in the sick labor market.
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Decrease in Growth could mean disinflation is on it's way, to the already injured US economy.
  • 3.0 percent growth rate in the final quarter of 2011
Mo Settles

Gas survey reports its first price drop of the year - CNN.com - 1 views

  • "We may see another five to 10 cents decline in the next few weeks" if crude oil doesn't rise, she said.
  • Atlanta: $3.79 Boston: $3.95 Denver: $3.87 Houston: $3.85 Memphis, Tennessee: $3.72 Portland, Oregon: $4.02
  • their first dip since December, according to a nationwide survey published Sunday.
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  • A gallon of regular now costs $3.91 on average,
  • down more than 5 cents from two weeks earlier, when the average was just a few cents below the $4 mark.
  • crude oil for allowing gasoline
  • Gasoline supplies are plentiful, but crude oil prices had been "propping up" gasoline costs, she said. As crude oil prices have stabilized, gasoline prices have fallen.
  • Even looking ahead to later in May, as the country enters peak driving season, prices might not jump if crude oil stays stable because gasoline supplies are flush
  • one year ago was $3.8
  • ust three cents under
  • tabulates prices every two weeks at thousands of gas stations nationwide.
  • The city with the lowest average gas price was Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $3.52
  • San Francisco: $4.21
    • Mo Settles
       
      Why did the price change? -crude oil  -lots of gasoline  -crude oil stable/gasoline has prices fallen -
    • Mo Settles
       
      By how much did quantity change? -quantity of crude / gasoline increased
    • Mo Settles
       
      Who was effected by price change? -American citizens -The Oil Companies -Government?  
    • Mo Settles
       
      How was price impacted? -average gas prices dropped by 5 cents (USA) -$3.91 for a gallon on average  -below $4 mark -if crude oil prices stay stable another 10 cent change is expected -prices in peak season might not change because of the steady gasoline prices -average last year $3.88 three cents under current  -
    • Mo Settles
       
      Lundberg Survey  -tabulates prices every two weeks at thousands of gas stations nationwide
    • Mo Settles
       
      Econ to talk about -PES
Erica Nozawa

Scotland sets minimum prices for alcohol to curtail country's health problems - HealthP... - 1 views

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    (Credit: Getty Images) (CBS News) Alcohol in Scotland is about to get more expensive. The Scottish Government announced today that it will set a minimum price of 50 pence per unit (10 milliliters) of alcohol - or about $0.81 for every 0.34 fluid ounces of booze.
Kat Whatley

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: New Electricity Tariff Takes Off Today - 1 views

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    This will be my IA 1
Tessa Jalink

Palladium: the next hot commodity? - Outside the Box - MarketWatch - 1 views

  • NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — With declining supply and rising demand,
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Supply & Demand
  • 6.8 million ounces
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Initial Supply Value
  • increase in palladium supply does not look likely.
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Not an Increase in Supply Decrease? No Change?
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  • declining palladium production
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Suggests a Decrease in Supply
  • prices being able to rise since then,
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Increase In Price
  • supply will likely stagnate
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      No Change in Supply
  • demand for the metal is only going to increas
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Increase in Demand.
  • curtailing their production
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Decrease in Supply
  • greater need for catalytic convertors, and therefore an increased demand for palladium.
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Increase in Demand
  • investment demand
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Even larger increase in demand
  • $1,000. Today, palladium is at around $615
    • Tessa Jalink
       
      Can be used for values on the price axis. 
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