Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pei: OCBC/Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Center ; Philip Johnson, John Burgee: Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas ; Gunnar Birkerts: IBM Building, Southfield, Michigan ; Edward Larrabee Barnes: IBM Tower, New York ; Murphy/Jahn: Xerox Center, Chicago, Illinois ; Murphy/Jahn: Chicago Board of Trade Addition, Chicago, Illinois ; I. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Plywood Futures-Learning How Others Create a Good Derivative Grain Markets and Mortgages; Mortgage Interest Rate Futures-Creating Good Derivatives; Chicago Calls; Chapter 4: The Chicago Board of Trade Years; Mentors and Leaders; Trading with the Soviets; An Explosion in Grain Prices; Iron Men in Wooden Pits; The Gulf Wheat Futures Contract; Contract Improvement-The Brooklyn Farmer in Iowa; The Relationship between Futures Prices and Spot Prices; The Gold Futures Contract; Chapter 5: The Chicago Board of Trade Years; How GNMA's Work; Drafting GNMA Futures…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The most influential U.S. economic indicators -- Employment -- Employment situation -- Weekly claims for unemployment insurance -- Help-wanted advertising index -- Corporate layoff announcements -- Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) -- Consumer spending and confidence -- Personal income and spending -- Retail sales -- E-commerce retail sales -- Weekly chain store sales -- Consumer credit outstanding -- Cambridge Consumer Credit Index -- Consumer Confidence Index (Conference Board) -- Survey of consumer sentiment (University of Michigan) -- ABC News/Money Magazine Consumer Comfort Index -- UBS Index of Investor Optimism -- National output and inventories -- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) -- Durable goods orders -- Factory orders -- Business inventories -- Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization -- Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing survey -- Institute for Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing business survey -- Chicago Purchasing Managers index (Business Barometer) -- Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) -- Housing and construction -- Housing starts and building permits -- Existing home sales -- New home sales -- Housing Market Index : National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) -- Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey and the National Delinquency Survey -- Construction spending -- Regional Federal Reserve Bank surveys -- Regional Federal Reserve Bank reports -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York : Empire State Manufacturing Survey -- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia : Business Outlook Survey -- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City : Manufacturing Survey of the 10th district -- Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond : manufacturing activity for the fifth district -- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago : National Activity Index (CFNAI) -- The Federal Reserve Board's Beige Book -- Foreign trade -- International trade in goods and services -- Current account balance (summary of International transactions) -- Prices, productivity, and wages -- Consumer Price Index (CPI) -- Producer Price Index (PPI) -- Employment Cost Index -- Import and export prices -- Productivity and costs -- Employer costs for employee compensation -- Real earnings -- Yield curve…”