The EU Commission monthly indices that chronicle gains in the EU and EMU areas show a rise in the EU area index to 106.9 in October from 105.5 in September. The 1.3% monthly rise is less than last month's 1.6% gain; otherwise it is [...]
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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| Oct 28 2016EU Indices Show Solid Gains in October
- Global| Oct 27 2016
Euro Area Money Supply Crawls Higher
Money supply (M2) growth in the EMU slowed its year-on-year pace to 5% in September from 5.2% in August. After being boosted to a peak year-on-year pace of 6.8% in July 2015, EMU money supply growth has steady decelerated and has been [...]
- Global| Oct 26 2016
German Confidence Expected to Retreat
German consumer confidence for all intents and purposes peaked back in 2015. Then it swooned and recovered in 2016 to recover that peak, but now it is on the decay again. GfK does a look-ahead assessment of German confidence. That [...]
- Global| Oct 25 2016
IFO Advances and Holds the High Ground
The German IFO index made solid gains in October with the all sector index rising to 13.8 from September's 11.9 to stand in the 90.9 percentile of its historic queue of values. All the major early-release IFO gauges stand in the top [...]
- Global| Oct 24 2016
Euro Area PMIs Surprise
The early flash PMI readings for the EMU, Germany and France show upside surprises mainly on the gains in the manufacturing indices in October. Perspective on manufacturing The EMU, German and French manufacturing sectors advanced and [...]
- Global| Oct 21 2016
What's Goin' On? The PPP PPPardox
Why do things continue to go off-track in the global economy? It is very simple to understand really and one of the main reasons is embodied in the chart and the table. First, let me describe what you are looking at. The chart shows [...]
- Global| Oct 20 2016
The German PPI Is Restless...for Good Reason
The German PPI has been on the move up. But a funny thing happened in September on that journey; the PPI backtracked and fell. This setback has also blunted the pace of the PPI rise and even the path of the ex-energy PPI. That gauge [...]
- Global| Oct 19 2016
Japan's Sector Indices Creep Ahead at Creepy Slow Speed
The chart presents the three main sectors: (1) mining and manufacturing, (2) construction and (3) services (tertiary) as year-on-year growth rates. Since early in 2015, the growth rates of all three sectors have been exceptionally [...]
- Global| Oct 18 2016
U.K. Braces for Waves of Inflation; Are There Lessons for Others?
The U.K. is bracing for inflation since the pound sterling has been in a tailspin in the wake of the U.K. Brexit vote. Sterling is down from its peak this year by about 16% vs. the dollar and about the same amount vs. the euro. When a [...]
- Global| Oct 17 2016
Japan's IP Index Makes Smaller Gain But Still Looks Solid
Japan's industrial production gain is at 1.3% month-to-month in August, lower than the preliminary 1.5% that had been reported initially. Still, (as the chart shows) year-over-year gains in IP are beginning to take hold across all [...]
- Global| Oct 14 2016
European New Auto Registrations Show Prevarication
European auto registrations rose in September following a huge gain in August. The August spurt followed a nearly identically massive drop in July. The registration series has become outlandishly volatile. For this reason, we plot [...]
- Global| Oct 13 2016
Japan's Sector Indices Show Little Activity
Japan continues as if cursed with a similar travail to that of Sisyphus. He was condemned to have to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to see it roll back over him to sit the floor of the hill so he was forever to commit the same [...]
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