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Locate the Economic Outlook and Financial markets for Australia and the world. Also check out key Business Links , Industrial Relations , and Trade .

Access economic briefs, economic and financial perspective reports, market commentary on economic reports, and a calendar of upcoming releases.

Find Canadian, U.S., and International commentaries and special reports. Regular publications include the Weekly Economic Review, Country Monitor, NAFTA News, and Mexico Monitor. Outlook publications include the Canadian Regional Outlook, and International Economic Review. Special reports cover monetary and fiscal policy, industry studies, and economic analysis.
 
Economic, strategy, corporate and industry, and Asia Pacific research reports.
 
Access European macro-economic analysis and Economic sectorial indicators.
 
Locate background information, news articles, G8 research at the University of Toronto, summit meetings materials, and ministerial and other meetings.
 
View excerpts for the electronic technology, healthcare, business information services, and branded consumer growth industries and companies.
 
 
Search for publications in the IMF Publications Database. Access selected titles in full-text such as working papers and papers on policy analysis and assessment.
 
This is the oldest continuous survey of economists' expectations. It summarizes the forecasts of economists from industry, government, banking, and academia. It is overseen by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
 
Thoughts and ideas from the world's top market analysts. Commentaries cover the stock, bond, commodity, currency, grains, financial futures, and options markets.
 
Midday and closing market commentaries, research reports, and and 20-minute delayed stock prices.
 
Locate Ratings & Rating Actions, Credit Research Services (includes executive summaries and some full-text research reports (in .PDF format)), Economic Commentary, and information about Moody's.
 
Comments from Ron Reuss, Chief Economist of Piper Capital Management covering the economy, bonds, and stocks.
 
Access daily market commentaies covering the stock market, bond market, treasury market, and the technical outlook.

 
Locate the quarterly newsletter Micro , research publications (e.g. working papers and occasional papers), monthly economic indicators, micro-economic monitor (quarterly pictures of economic conditions), Canadian Industry Statistics, Trade Data Online, and a link to The Daily , Statistic Canada's official release bulletin.

A quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts in the United States. The survey is conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Surveys include "median" and inflation (1 year, 1-10 years) forecasts.
 

 

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Industries

Under "Industry Statistics" locate the Annual Report of the US Scheduled Airline Industry, ATA/Gallup Air Travel Survey, Passenger & Cargo Traffic History, Passenger Load Factor History, Industry Earnings History, Airline Prices (Yield), and Airline Safety History. Click on the "Airline Hanbook" for background information about the industry including deregulation and structure of the industry.
Access information from the latest newsletter, top 10 rankings, and data and statistics.
Industry news, state and U.S. government news. Link is at the bottom of the page.
News, features, and columns. .
Locate information about the latest products, technologies, and shows; industry news; and government actions effecting the industry.
          The latest news from the health and beauty industry.
Issued three times a week, this service provides abstracts of news articles dealing with information technolgy.
Industry reports covering areas such as chemicals and pharmaceuticals, glass, paper and cardboard, plus textiles and clothing. Reports are .PDF format.
Current stories may feature background information, trends, and news about companies.
Provides analysis of important issues and insights into the global position of US industries, the technological competitiveness of the United States, and implications of trade and policy developments. A quarterly publication of the Office of Industries.
Access resources and current and historical articles about the telecommunications market.
Click on "Research" for the Pocket Factbook, the Foodservice Industry Forecast, and operating ratios.
Search by report categories, country, and report type for nearly 130 countries.

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Country Reports

Search by report categories, country, and report type for nearly 130 countries.
 
U.S. Export/Import data on bulk, intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural products.
 
These reports provide valuable information about some of the United States' most important export markets.


Farm Bill

The Farm Bill of 2002.

Market Reports

Agricultural Electronic Bulletin Board
Topics cover farm marketing, farm and pest management, news releases, and the Missouri Agricultural Statistics Service. Access documents such as daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly commodity reports, newsletters, and economic commentaries.

Agriculture Fact Book

Locate information such as the structure of U.S. agriculture, the U.S. farm sector, rural America, and farm and international trade services. Available only in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
 
This source provides a synthesis of key developments in global economy and policies affecting international trade in commodities and reviews developments of individual commodity markets.
 
Locate data such as the USDA monthly supply and demand and the SoyStats Reference Guide.
 
Use keyword searching and locate announcements issued about market news and by the Agricultural Statistics Board.

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Periodicals

Locate background information and tables of content for issues.
Access the periodical published by the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service. Current and back issues available in .PDF format.
The monthly report now available in PDF format with graphics and charts.
Access full-text articles from various farm-related periodicals.
Examines the results of new rural research.
Examines the results of new rural research.

Research

"AgEcon Search is designed to electronically distribute reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural economics." Documents are presented in PDF format.
The National Agriculture Library's Online Public Catalog (includes the most current source for AGRICOLA cataloging records) and Journal Article Citation database (subset of the AGRICOLA database, January 1989 to the present). Login as ISIS.
Information on ongoing and recently completed projects sponsored or conducted primarily within the USDA and State university research systems. Contains project summaries, project reports, and lists of recent publications coming out of the research.

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Statistics

Access the 2004 through 1994 documents. Locate statistical charts, and tables about topics such as agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Some files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
"FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics" in areas such as production and trade.
Access data on topics such as agriculture, economics, fisheries, forestry, and sustainable development.
Search two databases: 1) Weekly Average Price Comparison (for weekly cash and future prices for livestock and grains; and 2) Commodity Market Reports (for daily Iowa cash grains and closing futures prices).
Search for reports from the USDA Economics and Statistics System by data sets and reports (gopher) and by title list and subject (Web). Search for reports published by the ERS, NASS, and World Agricultural Outlook Board.

Trade Agreements

Full-text document of this agreement with Canada and Mexico.

 

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