€-coin falls slightly in May
- In May €-coin fell slightly, to 0.26 from 0.28 in April, recording its fourth consecutive decline.
- The indicator was mainly affected by the slowdown in industry, together with the persistent weakness of price developments.
€-coin and euro-area GDP – May 2016
The most recent real-time figures are:
Month | €-COIN |
May 2015 | 0.38 |
June 2015 | 0.39 |
July 2015 | 0.41 |
August 2015 | 0.43 |
September 2015 | 0.39 |
October 2015 | 0.36 |
November 2015 | 0.37 |
| December 2015 | 0.45 |
| January 2016 | 0.48 |
| February 2016 | 0.47 |
March 2016 | 0.34 |
April 2016 | 0.28 |
May 2016 | 0.26 |
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For a more detailed analysis see the €-coin ANALYSIS section, for an overview of the recent behaviour of the series on which €-coin is based see the Euro area at a glance section.
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€-coin in brief
€-coin is a real-time, monthly estimate of area-wide GDP growth, computed each month by the staff of the Banca d’Italia. It provides a single number summarizing the current economic picture for the euro area.
€-coin collates a large collection of statistical data (industrial production, business surveys, stock market and financial data, demand indicators, and more) and extracts the information that is relevant to forecast GDP. It tracks underlying GDP growth, preceding official GDP releases by several months. Essentially, the index:
(i) gives a monthly “smoothed” estimate of quarter-on-quarter GDP growth in the euro area;
(ii) highlights the underlying trend by adjusting the growth rate for short-term fluctuations and measurement errors; that is, the index figure is an indicator of the euro area’s actual growth momentum.
For further technical details on €-coin, see “New Eurocoin: Tracking economic growth in real time”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, No. 92, 1024-1034, available in the Bank of Italy working paper series (Temi di Discussione della Banca d’Italia) no. 631
http://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/temi-discussione/2007/2007-0631/en_tema_631.pdf
