Sunday, October 10, 2021

Business Intelligence Monitor 211011

(Introduction)

[Markets]
※   U.S. crude futures topped $80 a barrel for the first time since November 2014


[Indicators]
•   US Aug. Wholesale inventories: U.S. wholesale inventories unrevised in August
•   US Sep. Nonfarm payrolls: U.S. Job Growth Falls to Slowest Pace of Year
※   Economy added just 194,000 jobs while unemployment rate dropped to 4.8% as many workers exited from labor force
•   China Sep. Services PMI(Caixin): China's Sept services activity returns to growth - Caixin PMI


[Trackers]
•   Johns Hopkins University: COVID-19 Global Cases & Deaths
•   Worldometer: COVID Live Update
•   Bloomberg: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker
•   Bloomberg: Global PMI Tracker
•   Bloomberg: The Covid Resilience Ranking


[Calendars]


[News]
※   Component shortages, surging prices of raw materials and transportation backups compound the bottlenecks
※   Virtual meeting follows Biden administration’s outline of a policy building on strategies initiated by Trump
※   Developers have run up huge debts. Now home sales are down, Beijing is imposing borrowing curbs and buyers are balking at high prices.
※   Taiwanese people would not bow to Chinese pressure, President Tsai Ing-wen said in a speech Sunday
※   Goldman now sees 5.6% U.S. growth in 2021 and 4% in 2022
※   두산건설·지에스건설 현장소장 등 국가철도공단 직원에 뇌물 공여


[Opinions]
•   Project Syndicate(Luis Garicano): Will Corruption Threaten Europe's Economic Recovery?
•   Project Syndicate(Mauricio Cárdenas): After “Doing Business”
•   Project Syndicate(Aleh Tsyvinski): Cryptocurrencies' Next Stage
•   FT(Editorial Board): The software engineer will fix your car now
•   FT(Robert Armstrong): Expensive energy was the plan all along
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Where Did All the Workers Go?
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): The Global Tax Damage
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): Climate of Strategic Vulnerability
•   WSJ(Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.): If Trump Wins in 2024, Then Who Threatens Democracy?
•   WSJ(Peggy Noonan): Progressives Hold the Capital Captive
•   WSJ(Anders Fogh Rasmussen): Europe’s Complacency Heightens the China Challenge
•   WSJ(Allysia Finley): Who Slowed Merck’s Covid Remedy?
•   NYT(Editorial Board): Stop the Debt Ceiling Nonsense
•   WP(Megan McArdle): Why the economy keeps getting weirder
•   Bloomberg(Mohamed A. El-Erian): Noisy September Jobs Report Sends a Clear Signal to Congress
•   Bloomberg(Liam Denning): Europe Has The Natural Gas, But Is That Enough?
•   Bloomberg(Jared Dillian): It’s Tough Taking ESG Investors Too Seriously
•   Nikkei Asia(Tetsushi Takahashi): Is Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a Keynesian?
•   파이낸셜뉴스(구본영): 탄소중립 속도조절론

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