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Treasury International Capital (TIC)
Definition: These Treasury data track the flows of financial instruments into and out of the United States. Instruments tracked include Treasury securities, agency securities, corporate bonds, and corporate equities.

Unemployment Rate
Definition: The percentage of the people classified as unemployed as compared to the total labor force.

Wholesale Trade
Definition: Wholesale Trade is the dollar value of sales made and of inventories held by merchant wholesalers. It is one of the components of business inventories. Statistics include sales, inventories, and stock/sale ratios, collected via mail-out/mailback survey of about 7,100 selected wholesale firms.

ZEW
Definition: The ZEW works in the field of user-related empirical economic research. In this context it particularly distinguished itself nationally and internationally by analysing internationally comparative issues in the European context and by compiling scientifically important data bases. The ZEW's duty is to carry out economic research, economic counseling and knowledge transfer. The institute focuses on decision-makers in politics, economics, and administration, scientists in the national and international arena as well as the interested public. Regular interviews on the situation on the financial markets and
business-related service providers as well as large-scale annual studies on technological competitiveness of and innovation activities in the economy are representative of the different types of topical information provided by the ZEW. The ZEW is subdivided into the following five research fields:

• International Finance and Financial Management;
• Labour Economics, Human Resources, and Social Policy;
• Industrial Economics and International Management;
• Corporate Taxation and Public Business Finance;
• Environmental and Resource Economics, Eco-management.