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 [...]
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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| Jan 30 2017EU Commission Indices Hold Uptrends
- 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 [...]
- Global| Jan 24 2017
EMU PMIs Ease on Weaker Services As Manufacturing Continues Stronger
It's a split decision on the EMU this month as services are weaker and manufacturing is stronger. However, the relatively greater services weight has the tiebreaker in terms of the impact on the overall PMI which is slightly lower in [...]
- Global| Jan 23 2017
Japan's Sector Survey Crawls Higher
Japan's sector surveys were only able to crawl higher in November as the industrial and services gauges rose while construction slipped to hold the overall advance back. The all-industry index rose to 103.6 in November from 103.3 in [...]
- Global| Jan 20 2017
German PPI Takes Wing...Even Excluding Energy
As the ECB met this past week, policy was kept on an even keel despite pressures from rising oil prices. ECB President Mario Draghi has said that he is unconvinced that there is an underlying trend to inflation. Draghi sees energy, a [...]
- Global| Jan 19 2017
EMU Current Account Surplus Trumps the Past...All of It
The euro area has set a new record high current account surplus at 36.1 billion euros in November. And while the ECB has just met and decided to kick the can down the road for a bit longer, international policy is showing itself to be [...]
- Global| Jan 18 2017
Euro Area Inflation Turns Higher
The chart features the year-on-year inflation result in the three largest EMU economies as well as the economy-weighted result for the EMU itself. Inflation is turning higher in each of the countries in the chart but at different [...]
- Global| Jan 17 2017
ZEW Shows Improvement in German Current Conditions and Expectations
Table 1 shows a sharp improvement in German current conditions and a rise in German expectations. The German current index has been better historically less than 7% of the time while expectations are better about 54% of the time. [...]
- Global| Jan 13 2017
EMU Surpluses and Trump Trade-o-nomics; Food for thought on Friday the 13th
Every picture tells a story, don't it? Bad grammar? Yes, but a truism nonetheless. The chart on the left pictures the German and EMU current accounts as a percentage of GDP. Since late 2000, these values have been positive indicating [...]
- Global| Jan 12 2017
EMU IP Gains 1.5% in November
EMU industrial output spurted by 1.5% in November, more than expected but only after October's dismal 0.1% gain. The headline series (EMU IP excluding construction) shows a weaker growth rate 3.4% over three months compared to its [...]
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