Find Forecast Data on a Country?

TOPIC: When you plan to conduct business in a specific country, you need to investigate the risk of doing business, as well as forecasts of economic stability and economic trends. Several databases on Dialog provide analysis and forecasts of doing business in different countries.

These files include INVESTEXT® PDF Fulltext (File 745), EIU: Country Risk and Forecasts (File 628) and EIU: VIEWSWIRE (File 620). INVESTEXT is an index to company, industry, and geographic research reports written by analysts at more than 600 leading investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms worldwide. The reports are particularly useful for market research, strategic planning, competitive analysis, and financial forecasting. VIEWSWIRE (File 620) contains daily briefings on key market developments around the world, timely assessments and forecasts of changing market conditions and the implications for business, including regular country updates, consensus currency, interest and equity forecasts, country forecast summaries, five-year forecast tables and country risk summaries.

In this example we'll use EIU: Country Risk and Forecasts (File 628) to find forecast data for Mexico. File 628 provides insightful analysis of the short- and medium-term economic creditworthiness of over 90 countries and gives a medium-term outlook into economic, political and business trends in 58 countries.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 628
SELECT FORECAST(2W)SUMMARY/TI AND CN=MEXICO
SELECT S1 AND PY=2007
SET H 80
REPORT S2/TITLES
Follow the REPORT TITLES menu

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN EIU: Country Risk and Forecasts (File 628). 2. SELECT the country name (CN=) and keywords limited to the title (/TI). Use the (2W) proximity connector to retrieve terms with two or less words between them in the order specified. 3. Limit to the year(s) from which you want data. Quarterly entries for each year are available. 4. Use the Set command to set the horizontal width to 80 character, good for displaying tables.
5. Use the REPORT TITLES (e.g., REPORT S#/TITLES) command to gather together all pages in a report.
6. Select the report you want to view, in this example report 1. 7. Type C to view the complete table of contents. For longer reports you may want to view section headings first. Note: Part of the Table of Contents has been omitted from this display.
8. Review the Table of Contents and select page numbers you want to view. Note that in this database you pay per page. Each page constitutes a record. 9. Decide whether you want to display the page(s) on screen (D) or have pages emailed to a specific address (E). The page(s) you selected are displayed on the screen.
10. To exit the REPORT TITLES menu and continue searching, enter EXIT. Note: Part of the record has been omitted from this display.

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Stock #: 53827; Last modified: 14 Sep 2011

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