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Using a high-frequency dataset, CEIC users can get a real-time sense of consumers' waxing and waning confidence well ahead of the official figures - and insights into an economy that has been a bit more sluggish than expected in 2024.

Ecuador's economy has had a rough 2024, but one of the bright spots has been international demand for the nation's tropical crops and farmed seafood.

When it comes to exchange rates, fund flows continue to send strong predictive signals. Recently, international asset-allocation trends are pointing to a "Trump factor" that might weaken the Malaysian ringgit.

South Korea shocked the world when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law for the first time since the country's transition to democracy in the 1980s. The incident lasted only six hours as legislators voted unanimously to overturn the declaration.

Predicting "transitory" inflation went wrong for some of the world's central bankers earlier this decade, but this might be a safer call for India -- where a spike in food prices is reversing itself in real time.

China is the world's biggest iron-ore producer, and it imports most of this key steelmaking ingredient by sea. Once we consider how much iron ore is in the holds of vessels calling at Chinese ports, we can get an early sense of iron-ore imports – and a signal about the economy more broadly – by monitoring shipping traffic.