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Thursday, March 11, 2010

News agency Bloomberg has published its financial professional confidence indicator yesterday. The index value for February is 53.8 versus 54.9 the previous month. A value larger than 50 means that more optimists than pessimists responded to the Bloomberg enquiry. The drop in confidence is attributed to growing concerns about government finances amongst several nations in the world. Expected early withdrawals of stimulus measures raises concerns about the possibility for sustained recovery in the near future.

United States wholesale inventories dropped for the second month in a row in January. The drop was 0.2% versus a drop of 0.8% a month prior. According to analysts companies are not able to keep up with demand and they expect that rises in production output are to be expected.

The Japanese economy has grown 0.9% in the fourth quarter of 2009. This is lower than early estimates showed. Increasing demand for Japanese exports drives the increase with a 0.5% rise in the share exports have in the Japanese GDP.

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