Data Notification
Removing TopRelation:Futures:Indices Category
Insight Economics Weekly Economic Indicator Survey

Notification - January 2004 - LIM customer databases have all recently been upgraded to 4X MIM versions. One of the benefits of the 4X platform is that certain previous restrictions on the location of data in the MIM tree have now been removed.

As part of our ongoing desire to keep your MIM database up-to-date and make the data more accessible to users, we now intend to move all of the data under the "TopRelation:Futures:Indices" category into the “TopRelation:Futures:MktIndices" category.

It is planned to implement this change on February 15, 2004.

Customers will not see any difference in symbols or columns, just the parent change in the hierarchy. The only likely impact would be if an XMIM query referred to the entire relation of the data in TopRelation:Futures:Indices or any sub branch of the data. If queries refer directly to symbols, they will not be affected.

If you have any questions about this intended change or its impact, please contact our customer support desk at: +1.800.546.9646 (U.S) or +44(0)207.553.2639 (Europe) or email: support@lim.com.



Insight Economics Weekly Economic Indicator Survey
 The new Insight Economics Weekly Economic Survey will replace the defunct MMS weekly economic survey. Each week, Insight Economics surveys approximately 50 economists from commercial banks, investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and market research firms for their forecasts on key economic indicators. The forecasts for the subsequent two weeks are compiled and distributed every Friday. Consensus forecasts derived from this survey help to quantify market expectations regarding the economy.

Insight Economics covers the following macroeconomic indicators:

  • BUSINVEN_EST - Business Inventories
  • CAPACITY_EST - Capacity Utilization
  • CONFIDNC_EST - Consumer Confidence
  • CPI_EST - Consumer Price Index
  • CPI_XFE_EST - CPI excluding food & energy
  • C_CREDIT_EST - Consumer Credit
  • DURABLE_EST - Durable Goods Orders
  • ECINDEX_EST - Employment Cost Index
  • EX_HOMESALE_EST - Existing Home Sales
  • F_ORDERS_EST - Factory Orders
  • GDP_EST - Gross Domestic Product
  • GDP_DEF_EST - GDP Price Deflator
  • TRADE_BAL_EST - International Trade
  • H_EARN_EST - Hourly Earnings
  • H_STARTS_EST - Housing Starts
  • IND_PROD_EST - Industrial Production
  • NAPM_EST - ISM Manufacturing Survey
  • LEADING_EST - Leading Indicators
  • MICHSENT_EST - Consumer Sentiment
  • HOMESALE_EST - New Home Sales
  • NONFARM_EST - Payroll Employment
  • PER_CONS_EST - Personal Consumption
  • P_INCOME_EST - Personal Income
  • PPI_EST - Producer Price Index
  • PPI_XFE_EST - PPI excluding food & energy
  • PRODUCTION_EST - Productivity
  • R_SALES_EST - Retail Sales
  • RS_XAUTOS_EST - Retail Sales excluding autos
  • AUTOSALE_EST - Motor Vehicle Sales
  • UNEMP_RATE_EST - Unemployment Rate
  • AVG_WORKWEEK_EST - Average Workweek

Three series previously provided by MMS will not be provided by Insight Economics:

  • GNP_DEF_ES - S&P MMS Gross Domestic Product Deflator (estimate), % chg q/q SAAR
  • GNP_EST - S&P MMS Gross National Product (estimate), % chg q/q SAAR (discontinued)
  • UNEMP_WKCLA_EST - Weekly Unemployment Claims (estimate), K persons

 


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