Developing Countries' Debt Payments Hit A 50-Year High
Henrik Larsen
Corporate developments used as early evidence about the economy: earnings and margins, capital expenditure, layoffs and hiring plans, pricing behavior and inventory positions. Entries link each disclosure to the aggregate it anticipates. Read by macro analysts, economists and strategists tracking demand in close to real time.
Company news read as economic data: earnings, capital spending, hiring plans and pricing decisions treated as signals about future demand.

A joint inquiry by two federal agencies decides whether a foreign subsidy justifies a new U.S. tariff — and the process runs on fixed deadlines, not politics.
Henrik Larsen
The SEC retreated, California marched, Europe reached across the border — and U.S. companies now file climate data under someone's mandate anyway.
Henrik Larsen
Trucking is the economy's rawest real-time gauge — no revisions, no surveys, just rates — and the freight recession told the goods slowdown first.
Henrik Larsen
From cotton fields to polysilicon, U.S. law now presumes goods from certain regions are tainted — and importers carry the burden of proving otherwise.
Henrik Larsen