Other Economic Resources

• American Institute of Economic Research
• Barron’s Commodity -- Offers free commodity charts.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Chicago Board of Trade
• Energy Information Administration
• Farm Service Agency -- Commodity Operations
• Internet Economic and Statistics Resources
• Institute of Business Forecasting
• The Japan Center for Economic Research
• The Library of Congress
• New York Mercantile Exchange
• The Producer Price Index -- Measures changes in selling price over time.
• Purchasing Magazine: Offers quarterly updates of commodity prices.
• Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) database
• The Small Business Industrial Outlook
  Despite continuing economic instability, optimism is surging among industrial small businesses. A recent survey titled The Small Business Industrial Outlook reported 75% of participants predicting bottom-line growth in the coming year-with one-third of respondents forecasting "significant" growth.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau Economic Briefing Room
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Geological Survey (Department of Minerals)

Individual Country Data can be Found at the Following Web Sites:

• Australia: www.aigroup.asn.au
• China: www.clsa.com
• France: www.cdaf.asso.fr
• Germany:www.bme.de
• Israel: www.iplma.org.il
• Japan: www.nomura.co.jp
• Russia: www.mosnar.com
• United Kingdom: www.cips.org

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