soft drink and automotive industry in United States

The consumer intensive industries whose global operations are indeed tremendously influenced by key macroeconomic indicators and more importantly, by the relationship between the linkages between these indicators, which are representations of the underlying variables from the contained data. The movement and potential movement of GDP, unemployment rate, and Inflation, along with interest rates within differing economies, the CPI and PPI, wage rates/minimum wage, the unemployment rate, and benefit packages, consumer confidence, GDP growth, inflation, and the real exchange rate, all play a critical role in how the automotive and soft drink industry address their respective markets.

U.S. GDP is the primary macroeconomic indicator that indicates aggregate economic activity for all members working nationally and internationally. Therefore, an American working in China will be counted toward the U.S. GDP and toward the Chinese Gross National Product, or GNP but not the Chinese GDP...
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