There have been some interesting movements in the European government bond markets over the past 6 months, ranging from incredible negative yields on 10 year Swiss bonds through to almost 14% yields on Greek bonds.
Chart of the Week: Week 19, 2015: UK Historical Inflation
Next week, Pete Comley is coming to speak to the ERC on “Inflationary Wave Theory”.
Chart of the Week: Week 18, 2015: EU Unemployment
Eurostat released the latest unemployment figures for the EU at the end of last week, and the headline rate remained at 9.8% for the whole of the first quarter of this year (down from 10.4% in March 2014).
Chart of the Week: Week 17, 2015: Historical UK Government Debt
Public sector finance data for the financial year 2014/15 was released at the end of last week, so we’ve updated our annual chart tracking historical UK government debt over the last 160 years.
Chart of the Week: Week 16, 2015: Duration of Unemployment
The UK labour market statistics released at the end of last week reported continued improvement.
Chart of the Week: Week 15, 2015: IMF Growth Forecasts
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) release their twice yearly World Economic Outlook report in April, and it contains a great deal of data and forecasts.