Trading Economics

"Trading Economics "is a practical guide to understanding how key economic and market statistics drive trends in the financial markets.

The global financial crisis, the rise of new financial centres and new financial instruments, increasing transparency and intense market volatility is driving a need for traders and practitioners to understand key market figures to an extent not seen before. Trading Economics provides the answers in a convenient and practical, easy to use guide.

With decisions increasingly taken on a data-driven, statistic-based materiality, this book will educate analysts (traders, portfolio managers, hedge funds, and so on) in the meaningful interpretation of leading economic and market statistics.

"Trading Economics" will highlight the inescapable link between economic data and market movements; analysing a range of different, relevant media: surveys, economic growth statistics, inflation, labour markets, international trade, monetary and fiscal indicators, and indicating their relevance to the financial markets.

Trading Economics will prove an invaluable guide for practitioners navigating the economic storm and market volatility.

In an easy to reference layout, and easy to read language that eschews jargon, this book offers a hands on guide for those who want to understand how financial statistics work, and how to profit from them.