The U.S. nonmanufacturing ISM index has moved even higher in October and this is one report that shows no impact whatsoever from hurricane damage. In fact, in September the nonmanufacturing index moved even more sharply higher from [...]
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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| Nov 02 2017Japan's Consumer Confidence Claws Its Way Higher; Can It Continue?
Dots represent quarterly confidence points; the line connects dots since the report has become monthly. Japan's consumer confidence moved up to 44.5 in October form 43.9 in September. It was last stronger in September 2013. And then [...]
- Global| Nov 01 2017
Manufacturing PMIs Show Some Slowing in October
Of the 18 countries/regions in the table, 13 showed weaker readings in October than in September. However, only Mexico and Malaysia logged a manufacturing sector reading below 50 (indicating an outright contraction in output). There [...]
- Global| Oct 31 2017
EMU GDP: Settles Into Growth Path
From the end of 2012, EMU year-on-year real GDP has been gradually accelerating. In Q2 2015, it reached a growth rate of 2.0%. Then it slipped slightly below 2% for the next four quarters. In 2017 the 2% growth rate was back and has [...]
- Global| Oct 30 2017
EU Commission Indexes Climb But Slow Their Rate of Ascent
The EU commission indexes are still rising with gains posted in each of the sector or special function indexes in October. Retailing gained three points month-to-month; construction gained two points; the industrial and service [...]
- Global| Oct 27 2017
French Consumer Confidence Continues to Move South (Not the South of France)
French consumer confidence from INSEE continued to step back in October, falling to 100 from September's 101. Confidence had spiked at 108 in the midst of French election fever; however, June was a one-hit wonder as confidence jumped [...]
- Global| Oct 27 2017
French Consumer Confidence Continues to Move South (Not the South of France)
French consumer confidence from INSEE continued to step back in October, falling to 100 from September's 101. Confidence had spiked at 108 in the midst of French election fever; however, June was a one-hit wonder as confidence jumped [...]
- Global| Oct 26 2017
ECB Meets and Makes Plan to Reduce Purchases; Germans Are Hot But Money and Credit Are Not
The chart shows that year-on-year growth rates for money and credit flows in the EMU have stabilized at less-than-strong growth rates. Both have steadied over the past year with money growth at a pace of about 5% and credit growth at [...]
- Global| Oct 25 2017
German IFO Survey Continues with Exceptional Readings
Back to normal? The German economy is, in some sense, back to normal even as it does excessively well! From mid-2015 through early-2017, the highest diffusion reading has been in wholesaling. But in March 2017, the raw diffusion score [...]
- Global| Oct 24 2017
EMU Manufacturing Is Off to the Races While Services Lag
The EMU composite index fell back to 55.9 in October from 56.7 in September. The reading is still strong and it's the sixth highest composite score for the EMU since January 2012. The reading, the result of a manufacturing gauge that [...]
- Global| Oct 23 2017
U.K. Industrial Situation Deteriorates
U.K. orders fell to -2 in October from a level of 7 in September, dropping into negative territory (the number of firms saying orders are expanding is lower than the number that is saying orders are contracting). But the -2 reading is [...]
- Global| Oct 20 2017
Five-Month High for German PPI; Is Inflation or Trouble Brewing?
In the short run, oil prices drive a lot of the changes in Germany's PPI. Over the past three months, Brent prices have been steady rising and that has passed on an impact for rising prices to the PPI. While the German headline PPI is [...]
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