Japan's machinery orders fell by 3.1% in December while core orders rose by 6.7%. November has the growth rate 'signs' reversed with total orders up by 20.6% and core orders down by 5.1%. The monthly series is volatile. However, 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.
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Global| Feb 09 2017Japan's Core Orders Surge As Total Orders Dive
- Global| Feb 08 2017
OECD LEIs Show Continuing Modest Expansion
The OECD overall gauge shows continued growth as the comprehensive index rises to a rounded up value of 100 in December from 99.9 in November and continues its one-tick per month advance that has been in play for the last three [...]
- Global| Feb 07 2017
German IP Unexpectedly Rolls Over in December
German industrial output fell sharply and unexpectedly at the end of 2016 as output declined by 3% month-to-month in December. Both construction and manufacturing output fell by 3% or more in December. Widespread declines There were [...]
- Global| Feb 06 2017
German Orders Surge in December
Germany's real order volume surged by 5.2% as German domestic orders spurted by 6.7% month-to-month and foreign orders rebounded to gain 3.9%. Orders have come to show huge changes in recent months as the 6.7% domestic gain in [...]
- Global| Feb 03 2017
Global Upswing Chronicled by PMI Gauges - Can It Last?
The global PMI services gauges show that both manufacturing and services are on an upswing globally. The global services sector has a 76th percentile standing. The global total PMI gauge had an 86th percentile standing in January. [...]
- Global| Feb 02 2017
EMU PPI Turns Sharply Higher
The EMU area PPI surged by 1.1% in December, driving the three-month inflation rate to 10%, the six-month pace to 5.3% and raising the year-over-year pace to 1.6%. This is a sharp reversal from last year's 3% drop in the PPI. Price [...]
- Global| Feb 01 2017
Manufacturing PMIs Turn Up But Bifurcation Remains
The statistical variation among the values of the countries that have reported their manufacturing indices has widened again this month. The dispersion has been greater than it is in January only 6% of the time since 1991. The most [...]
- Global| Jan 31 2017
Seven-Year Low (Unemployment) Meets Four-Year High (Inflation); What's a' Matter? Matter Meets Anti-Matter
The European Monetary Union (EMU) is at one of those crucial policy crossroads where priorities begin to shift. So far, the ECB is holding fast onto its old program of economic stimulus. But unemployment has now fallen to a seven-year [...]
- Global| Jan 30 2017
EU Commission Indices Hold Uptrends
The EU area index compiled by the EU Commission fell in January while the EMU area index rose for the fourth month in a row. The EU index sits in the 77th percentile of its historic queue of values while the EMU index resides in the [...]
- Global| Jan 27 2017
French Confidence Snakes Higher
French business and consumer confidence continue to work higher in January. The consumer measure has reached the level of 100 for the first time since late in 2007, posting a normalization milestone of sorts. At this level the French [...]
- Global| Jan 26 2017
German Consumer Confidence Will Continue Higher in February
The GfK month-ahead survey for German consumer confidence has reached its highest reading on record for the third time. It first reached this level in June 2015 then matched it in September 2016. This is its third peaking in the last [...]
- Global| Jan 25 2017
German IFO Sector Diffusion Indexes Back off in January
January brings a slight rolling over of the values for the IFO index. Each sector has a reading that is slightly lower month-to-month. The combination all-sector index is lower by 2.2 points on the month. This is comprised of a [...]
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