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Is the site of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Their regular quarterly economic outlook could be very useful for anyone involved in this region. In addition, they produce excellent country briefs, mainly on Far Eastern economies, but occasionally on some others too. David Ashby.

This site provides regular updates on the mood of the UK consumer containing details of the latest GfK NOP UK consumer confidence survey undertaken for The European Commission together with the quarterly UK Financial activity survey that monitors consumers expected savings, investment and borrowing activity in the next 6 months.

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Is the web-site of the International Monetary Fund. It provides detailed data and information on all countries, including many IMF ‘letters of intent’ with emerging countries.

Is the site of the World Bank. Again, data and information on countries is available.

Is the site for the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It contains data, information and analysis for the major industrial nations.

Is the site of the US Federal Reserve. Excellent research can also be obtained from the regional Federal Reserve banks, which can be accessed via the this site.

Is the English site of the European Central Bank. Individual European central banks also publish a wide range of research.

Is the site of the Bank for international settlements. Based in Basle this is the bank for central banks. It provides data and research on many topics in the financial markets.

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Is a site run by the CIA providing a wealth of demographic, government structure and other information by country.

Is the site of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Is the site of the Institute of International Economics in Washington. Contains numerous papers and studies on international economic issues.

Is the site of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the US organisation that dates business cycles. It contains useful data and research on past business cycles.

Is a site aimed at A-level students in the UK. It has a wealth of economics information, explaining concepts in a straightforward way, as well as very useful links to other sites.

Contains comprehensive information on the latest management thinking. The site contains articles and reports that are of practical interest to managers and delivered in a short, easy-to-read style.

Is the site of BP Plc, the British oil company. Included is BP’s annual energy review, one of the best sources of data on oil and other energy sources, with data in PDF and excel format.

Is the site of the International Energy Agency, another good source of energy data.

Is the site for the Economic Freedom Index.

Gives past data and analysts’ expectations for stock earnings on the S&P 500 index.

Is a site run by Nouriel Roubini at the Stern School of Business in New York, containing useful articles and press cuttings on current major economic and financial topics.

Is the new site of Paul Krugman, a famous US economist. It covers many topical issues as well as some more academic issues.

Is the site of Professor Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance and an expert on US financial markets and behaviourist investment theory.

Is a site belonging to HBOS, a UK bank, which provides UK house price data.

Is the site of the National Association of Business Economists (for the US) and provides excellent links to information sources.

Contains a vast array of US data going back to the 1950s for free

Contains the Economics for Investment publications, produced by the author and his team.

Is the web-site of Deutsche Bank research. Contains forecasts and commentary.

Is the web-site of the Bank of Montreal run by Chief Economist Tim O’Neill. Contains forecasts and commentary for the major countries.

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