United States

For the United States, we’ve just added data from the Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). This new dataset tracks the impact of hurricanes on the Oil & Gas extraction activities within the Gulf of Mexico. Among the variables available, our users can now access the percentage and number of rigs / platforms evacuated as well as the percentage and amount of Oil production shut-in due to a hurricane.

While the actual data from the BSEE is ‘per hurricane’, we’ve decided to create rolling variables where a constant 0 value indicates a period without any hurricane monitored. This is for instance why the series in the chart stops in September, as no hurricane activity has been monitored since then.

In the chart below, we looked at the percentage of production shut-in during hurricanes and displayed it together with the Gross Oil inputs sent to refineries within the Gulf Coast (known as PADD 3). Hurricane Ida, back in September 2021,is one of the main reason inputs to refineries dropped by 2 millions barrels / day, with at some point almost 95% of the production shut-in.

Germany

For Germany, we’ve added the Consumer Barometer from the German Retail Federation. The dataset is published on the first Monday every month, and is based on a monthly survey of 2,000 people on their propensity to buy, save, financial situation and other consumption-related factors.

In the chart below, we displayed the main index and the price expectations, together the difference between the willingness to save / buy on the second pane.  

Chile

For Chile, we’ve increased our coverage on Public Finances with the addition of Sovereign Wealth Funds assets breakdowns, per asset class, and market value changes. Chile has two main SWFs (Sovereign Wealth Fund): the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF) and the Economic & Social Stabilization Fund (ESSF).

The chart below displays the evolution of their assets, as well as the components explaining the changes in market value.

Most of the decrease in value since 2020 is the result of withdrawals, rather than poor performances. The main behind those withdrawals is the pandemic and its impact of the country’s public finances, as the government needed to support the economy and increase substantially its spendings.

Malaysia

For Malaysia, we’ve added 3 digits SITC classifications breakdowns for Exports & Imports.

In the chart below, we took the 260 products listed (for Exports as well as Imports),and displayed the TOP 15 products exported (on the left) and imported (on the right) according to their current YTD aggregated value (as of now January to October). We also displayed the previous YTD value (for the same period) and calculated the YoY YTD change.

Note for the users: to facilitate the creation of this chart, we used Lists. This chart can only be open with Macrobond 1.24 and above.