World

We’ve just added a new leading indicator, which aims at measuring the global economic conditions that influence energy demand.

The working paper describing the approach and methodology used can be downloaded here.

In the chart below, we displayed the Economic Conditions indicator together with the energy consumption data from the U.S. EIA.

Australia

For Australia, we’ve added a variety of indicators, on Foreign Trade, Wages, and Fund Statistics. The complete list of additions can be accessed below.

In the chart below, we looked at the Hourly Wages exc. bonuses together with core inflation, and built a scatter chart using the Regression analysis to get the best fit line.  

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Russia

For Russia, we’ve added Political Polls data, ahead of the Legislative Election which will be held on or before 19th September 2021. United Russia is currently the ruling party after having won the 2016 elections.

The question asked for this poll is “if elections to the State Duma of Russia were held next Sunday, which of the following parties would you most likely vote for? 

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Chile

For Chile, we’ve just complemented the international reserves dataset with a weekly series displaying the total reserve assets.

The chart below compares the weekly total reserves with a currency index from the Central Bank.