Welcome to QuantMetriks
QuantMetriks is a system that gathers detailed sector information each month across a wide range of economies. The system uses price, cost and volume data to create synthetic sales and margin signals by sector. Launched in 1996 covering three hundred detailed UK sectors, QuantMetriks now extends to a number of economies. This site currently includes datasets for over five economies with more countries set to follow.
- London 20/20 – Update
In January 2010 we released “An employment outlook for London in 20/20”. Over two years on, we have chosen to revisit the issue of where London’s economy is heading. Far from tempering the optimism we expressed 27 months ago, we will say from the outset that we are even more upbeat. - Update: Plotting North Koreas path from regime-change to reunion
Some readers of Toscafunds recent Korean Discussion Paper – Plotting North Koreas path from regime-change to reunion - may be curious whether our thinking has changed with Kim Jong-il leadership ending with his death and not a Beijing managed regime change. - UPDATE: Scottish fiscal independence by 2015?
When making any prediction one is always mindful that what we anticipate as likely, may take longer to be realised. Rarely does one expect to be surprised on the early side. When it came to writing on Scotland almost twelve months ago (“Scottish fiscal independence by 2015?”, July 2010), we made a number of predictions for how the decade might end. We could never have imagined some of these predictions might be realised eight years early. - What if all our premises are proven WRONG?
Events across MENA prove how rapidly shocks can quickly spread. Events in Japan have shown as powerfully how natural disasters with international effects are never far away. - Searching out currency stars
Over coming years the dollar’s star in the currency firmament will dim, as the euro’s brightens and the RMB’s lightens for the first time. Few stars will glow more than the Australian dollar. - Some cheap currency stories
Despite a near waterfront decline in the dollar, there are certain units that are poised to fall against it. - CEE: why convergence confidence was always a confidence trick
I believe none of the seventeen nations that form the euro-zone can possibly return to national currencies. This said a host of CEE economies will devalue. When they do, the believers in convergence confidence will realise it was always a confidence trick.