Markets

Economies in real time

Name: Economies in real time
Uploaded: 2015-05-06T12:21:58.206Z
Duration: 6 min 21 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Jasper McMahon explains how now-casting works

A technique for predicting economic performance in real time saw Europe's acceleration and the US slowdown well ahead of conventional forecasters. Jasper McMahon, chief executive of Now-Casting.com, tells Martin Sandbu of Free Lunch about now-casting’s hits and misses.

May 6, 2015

Filmed by Rod Fitzgerald and Nicola Stansfield. Produced by Darryl Thomson.