by Rebecca Wilder Unemployment Rates Across the Euro Area – Tough Times in Key Markets Today Eurostat released its unemployment rate figures for the month of August. The Euro area…

Euro Area Retail Sales Portend Negative Quarter of Real Consumption by Rebecca Wilder Today Eurostat released its June estimate of real retail sales for the Euro area. On a month/month…

…tax effects (this data is provided by Eurostat), the theoretical inflation rates in Portugal and Italy are 1.8ppt and 0.8ppt, respectively, below the headline rate. The downward pressure on inflation…

…can see Eurostat data here). However, as a proportion of average monthly earnings, the 2010 minimum wage in Greece is roughly in line with other program countries, Ireland and Portugal,…

…rate since February 2009 – a local trough. Also this week, Eurostat reported that the Euro area (EA) unemployment rate stabilized in December at 10.4%. This is the highest level…

…makes me curious: How does U.S. unemployment compare to the EU15?* Here are the numbers for 2008. Calculations based on labor force and unemployment figures from Eurostat. Percent of (total…

…devaluation. An it’s not going to improve with a lower stock of debt (through restructuring)! According to Eurostat, the 4-quarter MA (Angry Bear blog calculations) of Greece’s export base as…

…here. Greece missed its 2010 budget deficit target by near 1%, 9.6% of GDP projected (see .pdf page 45) vs. 10.5% actual (see Eurostat release, .pdf). The 2011 target is…

…2008). No overheating there. Based on the chart below, whose data are from Eurostat, I’d even argue that there is a possible stagflationary scenario on the horizon if investment doesn’t…

…between domestic CPI and Eurostat’s Harmonised CPI here.) The chart illustrates the German CPI, the German harmonised measure of the CPI (HICP), Eurozone HICP inflation, and the ECB’s policy rate….