Showing posts with label world trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world trade. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

19/8/20: The VUCA World of World Trade

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  WTO projections for global merchandise trade by volume: Let's take a closer look. Optimistic scenario is for a 13% y/y drop in merchan...
Monday, February 8, 2016

7/2/16: You Gotta Have Some Heart: Baltic Dry Index

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As the global growth prospects are apparently and allegedly improving, and the world is busy printing money left right and centre with cur...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

14/1/16: Two Charts to Sum Up Global Growth Environment

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SocGen recently produced some interesting charts looking into 2016 trends. Two caught my eye, as both relate to long running themes covere...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

30/12/15: Baltic Dry Index: Brick in Search of a Lake's Bottom

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While IMF (belatedly) is warning about the risks of slower global growth, the Baltic Dry Index - a strong instrumental variable for global...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

3/2/15: Global Trade Growth: More Compression, Whatever About Hope...

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As I noted just a couple of days ago, global trade growth is falling off the cliff (see:  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2015/02/1215-wo...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

1/2/15: World Trade Growth:Now a Scariest Chart Candidate

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The scary chart of the month: post-Great Recession, World Trade volumes are growing at the slowest average pace in 35 years (even if we ar...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

31/3/2013: World Trade Drivers: policy or simple innovation?

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A very important issue of logistics and transport innovation effect on trade flows  is tackled in the study by Bernhofen, Daniel M., El-Sa...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

23/1/2013: IMF WEO Update: Euro Area snapshot

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In the previous post ( link here ) I have looked at the headline numbers from the IMF revision to their World Economic Outlook. Now, a qui...

23/1/2013: IMF World Economic Outlook Update

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IMF WEO is out just now. Headline reading is: "Global growth is projected to increase during 2013, as the factors underly...