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- YRI LEI: Unemployment Claims, High Yield Corp. Spread -
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Figure 11.
YRI LEADING ECONOMIC INDEX COMPONENT
(index = 100 on 1/10/1997)
Initial
Unemployment Claims
(inverted scale)
73 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15
Source: US Department of Labor and Haver Analytics.
Figure 12.
YRI LEADING ECONOMIC INDEX COMPONENT
(index = 100 on 1/10/1997)
High Yield
Corporate Spread*
(inverted scale)
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98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
* The weekly values are obtained by averaging the daily values over the 5-day week.
Source: US Treasury, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Haver Analytics.
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