The Bank of France survey shows a headline reading in August at 102.7; that is stronger than its July reading of 101. The BOF index peaked at 107.1 in December last year. It retreated sharply from its December reading to 104.3 in [...]
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Robert Brusca
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Robert A. Brusca is Chief Economist of Fact and Opinion Economics, a consulting firm he founded in Manhattan. He has been an economist on Wall Street for over 25 years. He has visited central banking and large institutional clients in over 30 countries in his career as an economist. Mr. Brusca was a Divisional Research Chief at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY (Chief of the International Financial markets Division), a Fed Watcher at Irving Trust and Chief Economist at Nikko Securities International. He is widely quoted and appears in various media. Mr. Brusca holds an MA and Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research pursues his strong interests in non aligned policy economics as well as international economics. FAO Economics’ research targets investors to assist them in making better investment decisions in stocks, bonds and in a variety of international assets. The company does not manage money and has no conflicts in giving economic advice.
Publications by Robert Brusca
Global| Sep 10 2018BOF Survey Makes Gain in August; BOF GDP Outlook Is Unchanged
- Global| Sep 07 2018
German IP Slows Down
Germany's industrial production fell by 1.1% in July, dropping for the second consecutive month. Over three months, IP is advancing at a 1.1% annualized rate. Over six months, it is falling at a 2% pace. Over 12 months, it is rising [...]
- Global| Sep 06 2018
German Orders Log Surprise Drop on Trade War Fears
Germany's orders fell by 0.9% in July when they were expected to rise by twice that much. Sequentially, German order growth rates are getting progressively weaker over shorter periods of time; that sort of deceleration is never a good [...]
- Global| Sep 05 2018
EMU Retail Sales Drop in July and Risk Still Lives Here
Retail sales in the European Monetary Union (EMU) countries dropped by 0.2% in July, lowering their three-month growth rate to a 1.5% annual pace. Retail sales in the EMU are rising at just a 2.1% pace over six months and by 1.2% over [...]
- Global| Sep 04 2018
Manufacturing PMIs Go Their Own Way... at Different Speeds Too
The Markit Global manufacturing PMI data for August are in. And there is a broad manufacturing slowing in place to which the U.S. is a notable exception. Of the 17 reporting units in the table, nine show month-to-month declines. The [...]
- Global| Aug 31 2018
Japan's IP Edges Lower
Industrial production fell in Japan for the third consecutive month. While the July drop was small, the three-month growth rate shows a sizeable decline in the works. IP in the developing third quarter is falling on a quarter-to-date [...]
- Global| Aug 30 2018
EMU Confidence Slips...Are Policy Risks Rising?
The plot in the chart makes it clear that the slippage in the EU indexes for EMU members is an ongoing phenomenon, not a one-month or two-month bit of variation. This sort of slippage is confirmed as well by the Markit indexes that [...]
- Global| Aug 29 2018
German Confidence Will Continue to Bump Along the Ceiling
The GfK economic index, that looks ahead to preview September for Germany, shows a slight downtick in its consumer gauge. The recent history shows that German confidence has been bumping along its rent ceiling sketching out a [...]
- Global| Aug 28 2018
EMU Monetary Stimulus Is Just Not Taking
As central bankers have been acting, planning and pondering their next move, all of them are on the road or on the tilt to reduced monetary stimulus. The Fed in the U.S. is the farthest along that trail with some 7-notches on its [...]
- Global| Aug 27 2018
German IFO Gauge Rises to 5-Month High
The German IFO index rose to 105.3 in August from 104.6 in July, striking its strongest posture since it logged a value of 105.9 in March. Still, from June 2017 through February 2018, the index had carried readings of 106 or stronger, [...]
- Global| Aug 24 2018
Japan's Inflation Trends Diverge
In July, Japan's headline inflation was up by a strong 0.3% but balanced by a 0.1% gain in the CPI excluding food and energy (core). The headline gain followed a weak 0.1% June rise while the core gain followed an even weaker 0.1% [...]
- Global| Aug 23 2018
EMU Flash PMIs Stabilize
The EMU PMIs have been falling over the last six months, but in August the indexes are stabilizing on very minor technical rebounds. The EMU manufacturing PMI fell to 54.6 in August from 55.1 in July as the services PMI posted a [...]
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