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• UK and Business with EU

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/uk-and-business-with-eu/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Business for Britain   A new lobby group campaigning to press the government to renegotiate the UK’s deal with the EU. See news and the signatories on the website.

• Trade monitoring database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/trade-monitoring-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The trade monitoring database This new official WTO resource provides detailed information on trade measures implemented by WTO members and observers since October 2008.

• US Armed Forces: Overseas activity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/us-armed-forces-overseas-activity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long.

• Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.

• Bloomberg: Skew analysis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/12/bloomberg-skew-analysis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 12, 2013 Smithfield Foods Inc. stock jumped more than 28 percent on May 29 following a $34-a-share cash offer from Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.

• BPS Occupational Digest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/bps-occupational-digest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 A new blog and email produced by the British Psychological Society, Users can get RSS feeds or sign up to receive regular research updates covering psychology in the workplace.

• R-shief: tracking Arab public opinion

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/r-shief-tracking-arab-public-opinion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world.

• Bloomberg: Studying Equity Volume Patterns for Clues on Price Direction

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/bloomberg-studying-equity-volume-patterns-for-clues-on-price-direction/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 Global equity markets rallied this month after a contraction in June. Trading volume can indicate whether these price movements will hold.

• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Country Indicators

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/micro-small-and-medium-enterprise-country-indicators/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 From the International financial corporation,  (MSME-CI)   Access to free data back 20 years on the number of small and medium business in 132 nations.

• Opendata for Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.