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Leading Indicator of Industry Profitability: January 2013

The Conference Board of Canada, January 2013
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The monthly Leading Indicator of Industry Profitability is constructed from high frequency data series. The indicators are designed to be predictive of movements in corporate profitability six months hence. An industry leading index is created for the economy as a whole, as well as for 49 individual sectors within the economy, thus providing coverage for most of the private business activity that takes place in Canada.

Document Highlights

  • The Leading Indicator of Industry Profitability rose 0.1 per cent in December, which marks the fifth consecutive month of modest gains. The small steps forward suggest that while corporate profitability is slowly gaining traction, not every industry is firing on all cylinders.
  • The number of industries recording declines fell to 17, down from 23 the previous month. This is an encouraging sign to start off the New Year, indicating that corporate profitability will likely improve in the coming months.

Reviews

Betty Jagodnik -  February 4, 2013
 
Jody Grywul -  January 22, 2013
nicely presented
 
Francois Gougeon -  January 22, 2013
Très bon article fournissant de façon structurée et synthétisée une multidude de données fort intéressantes.
 
Jatinbhai Patel -  January 21, 2013
 
Wendy Rooney -  January 21, 2013
 
Patricia Perry -  January 21, 2013
We still have a long way to go. Some good info.
 
Tapan Dalwadi -  January 21, 2013
Very good article with detail. This can be a lesson learned for all industrial leaders that what some positive / negative trend are coming forward.
 
Shankar Narayan -  January 21, 2013
Very useful information presented in an easy-to-understand manner.  It  would be more useful, particularly for me, in policy research and development if the information could be related to productivity, R&D and innovation.
 
Paul-Andre Veilleux -  January 18, 2013
 
Luc Chartrand -  January 11, 2013
Volume of the information was excellent. Another great read.
 
Annie Belanger -  January 9, 2013
 
Derrick Maddocks -  January 9, 2013
Excellent consolidation of a lot of information
 

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