Forecasts of Upcoming Data
Numbers in the News
Were We Right?
- Inflationary expectations 12 months ahead
- Industrial production
- Total revenues of economic sectors
- State-of-the-economy index
- Chain store retail sales
- Sales of new apartments
- Bank of Israel interest rate
- Unemployment rate
- Residential construction starts
- Consumer confidence index
- Business Trends Survey
- Incoming tourists
- Foreign trade
- Consumer price index
INCOMING TOURISM CONTINUES ITS STEEP DECLINE IN MARCH 2013
Incoming tourism, March 2011-March 2013
(thousands)
- Bank of Israel interest lowered to 1.5% during May 2013
- Unemployment rate remains below 7% in March 2013
- Sales of new apartments remain very high in March
- Consumer confidence remains strongly negative in April 2013
- Business trends survey improves in April
- Improvement in both exports and imports in April
- Jump in incoming tourism in April
- Inflation in April: 0.4%
- Business sector product growth slows to 2% in Q1/13