Of the 508,000 tourists who visited Ecuador in 1999, down slightly from 1998, barely one third were from the United States, and many of those came to study Spanish in low-budget exchange programs.
Our commodity-price index was rebased in February 2005.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Portfolio poll Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Manufacturing output per hour Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
The euro and the Swiss franc have made the biggest gains; the yen remains well below its early-2001 level.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Manufacturing output per hour Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
America grew by 3.6% rather than the 3.5% forecast a year ago.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Economic forecasts Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
Henderson made a big cut in its dollar-bond holdings and increased its exposure to sterling.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Portfolio poll Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
In Norway, however, productivity rose in spite of a fall in output, as hours worked fell even faster than the amount of goods produced.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Manufacturing output per hour Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
But core inflation, which excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, fell to 1.4%.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Portfolio poll Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar ReprintsIndustrial production in the euro area fell by 0.3% in May.
Growth in the euro area will be a modest 1.9% in 2005, only a bit faster than in 2004, rising to 2.5% in 2006, predicts the OECD.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages GDP forecasts Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
A worker from Jakarta must toil for almost 1½ hours to buy a Big Mac, but a Moscow wage buys the burger in 25 minutes and a Tokyo salary buys one in just ten.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Wages Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange rates against the dollar Reprints.
In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Bribery index Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Exchange-rate forecasts Reprints.
