Global Economic Factors
When reviewing the global economic market consider is the market stable, upward, strong, unstable, downturn, weakening or recession?
Where can you find research about the global economy? See research below.
Where does Australia rank in the global economy?
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 186 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
For further information go to IMF reports and publications
- World Economic Outlook
- Global Financial Stability Reports
- IMF Data Mapper GDP annual % change
- Country Information - every country listed
- Regional Economic Outlook Reports
World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It provides low-interest loans, interest-free credits and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management.
World Bank Data and statistics
Principal Global Indicators
The website presents data for the Group of 20 (G-20) to facilitate the monitoring of economic and financial developments for these systemically important economies. Launched in response to the on-going financial and economic crisis, it is hosted by the IMF, and is a joint undertaking of the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics (Inter-Agency Group): Bank for International Settlements (BIS), European Central Bank (EC), Eurostat, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN), and the World Bank (WB).
Dunn and Brad Street
D&B (NYSE:DNB) is the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses. D&B’s global commercial database contains more than 140 million business records.
Go to Dunn and Bradstreet Australia
Standards and Poors
Standard & Poor’s is a leading provider of financial market intelligence. For over 145 years Standard & Poor’s has stood for independence, objectivity and transparency in the financial markets.
Standard & Poor’s mission is to support “the investor’s right to know,” providing credit ratings, indices, investment research, risk evaluation and data.
Credit Ratings Assessments
Credit rating assessments are undertaken by private sector organisations who advise investors of the level of financial risk associated with an entity, including governments.
Australia is currently assessed on an annual basis by two credit rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Services (Moody’s), and Standard and Poor’s.
The ratings agencies use a range of factors in their annual ratings assessment. In this regard, Standard and Poor’s utilise around 22 different financial ratios, and an unspecified number of economic factors, in assessing jurisdictions. Similarly, Moody’s utilise around 35 different indicators of both a financial and economic nature in their assessments.
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