Archive for the ‘Investment’ Category

Economic calendar - The Weekly Petroleum Status Report

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Weekly Petroleum Status Report  Release Schedule: Wednesday after 10:35 a.m. EST (for tables 1 and 11-17 in txt, csv, and xls formats) and after 1:00 p.m. EST (for pdf files and appendix C) (schedule)

Also This Week in Petroleum Release Schedule: Wednesday @ 1:00 p.m. EST

Economic calendar - The Fed’s Beige Book

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector. An overall summary of the twelve district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a rotating basis.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/2008/

Economic calendar - The Employment Report

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The Employment Report

  • Importance (A-F): This release merits an A.
  • Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
  • Release Time: First Friday of the month at 8:30 ET for the prior month
  • Raw Data Available At: http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm.

Worklog: continuing the web history project

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

These days I restored the web history project, which aims to collect time series data from the web. One good use of it is to make my own intelligence reports into many economic indicators, with the help of many online databases like careerbuilder.com and craigslist.org.

Now the project is able to restart collecting old data. The next step is to study more deep into craigslist.org and provide very detailed reports of each category/region.