The EU Commission indexes show that the weakening trend in Europe is still in play. The overall EMU index of sentiment eroded to 109.5 in November from 109.7 in October. The pace of decline has slowed. And yet the ranking statistics [...]
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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.
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Global| Nov 29 2017EU Indexes Continue to Erode
- Global| Nov 29 2017
Japanese Retail Sales Refuse to Perform
Japanese retail sales sank in October. Nominal retail sales have dropped month-to-month in four of the last six months and in two of the last three months. There is sequential deterioration in nominal retail sales growth as the three- [...]
The EMU shows some acceleration in credit over the last three months. Private credit shows regular if slow step-ups in credit growth rates. Money supply, however, has slowed slightly compared to its 12-month pace. The real balance [...]
- Global| Nov 27 2017
U.K. Services Survey Weakens As Brexit Forces Play Out
The quarterly U.K. service sector survey by the CBI weakened in Q4. The assessment is for weakness and the prognosis is for weakness. There is really only one response that is truly strong and it is inconsistent with the other [...]
- Global| Nov 22 2017
The German Trade Surplus Expands Again; Highest Surplus Since April 2016
The German trade surplus in September continued to push to a higher level. The 21.83 billion euros surplus rose from 21.32 billion euros in August. It is the highest surplus since April 2016. Since January 1999, the surplus ranks as [...]
- Global| Nov 21 2017
U.K. Industrial Survey Shows Some Strength As Dueling Brexit Forces Play Out
A number of U.K. reports or actions of interest have come to light over the past day or so that give us some insight into how the U.K. economy is coping with Brexit. The CBI industrial survey released this morning shows strong total [...]
- Global| Nov 20 2017
Japan's Trade Surplus Flattens Out
Japan's trade trends, seemingly, offer little to the story about Japan's growth or global growth. Its surpluses have flattened out in the 300 billion yen range. Its exports and imports are now growing at very flat and highly similar [...]
- Global| Nov 17 2017
Euro Area Current Account Surplus Hits An 'All-time' Record
Not only is the EMU current account at surplus an all-time record of 37.8 billion euros (all-time means since the area was formed in January 1999) but that surplus has been stubbornly large. And that is a symptom of something bad. We [...]
- Global| Nov 16 2017
EMU Inflation Stays Down
The chart does a good job of showing what inflation has been up to in the euro area. Inflation troughed in early-2016 after making a brief and deeper but shorter-lived trough a year earlier. In the wake of the recession/financial [...]
- Global| Nov 15 2017
Euro Area Trade Surplus Jumps to New Record!
The euro area trade surplus jumped sharply in September, reaching its maximum surplus since the euro area was formed at 25.044 billion euros. The EMU current account surplus as a percentage of GDP reached 2.67% in Q2, the most recent [...]
- Global| Nov 08 2017
French Deficits Widen But Do No Harm
In September, French exports barely nudged ahead as imports gained 1.2% expanding the trade deficit to 6.4 billion euros from 5.9 billion euros in August. On a broader timeline, imports have been outpacing exports since early-2016 on [...]
- Global| Nov 07 2017
Setback for German IP But Trends Are Sill Solid
Despite growing optimism about European growth and the prospects for the ECB to continue its easing scale back, output growth in Germany fell in September and has dropped in three of the last four months. This period of weakness was [...]
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