Germany's Ifo business confidence index fell to 107.4 in June from 108.5 in May. The table below presents a diffusion treatment of the Ifo indexes since we can see sector details faster in this treatment of the survey. The all-sector [...]
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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| Jun 24 2015Germany's Ifo Steps Back in June
- Global| Jun 23 2015
EMU PMIs Show Some Strength
The EMU private sector advanced to 54.1 in June from 53.6 in May. EMU manufacturing ticked higher while EMU services made a more substantial gain. The services sector now has elevated to a rather strong 80th percentile standing in its [...]
- Global| Jun 19 2015
Italy's Trade Surplus Bounces Higher
Italy's current account surplus is higher in April, rising to 4.79 billion euros from 3.46 billion euros in March. The surplus was last higher in February, but this is a very high surplus reading for Italy with February's value the [...]
- Global| Jun 18 2015
U.K. Retail Sales Make a Surprising Gain
U.K. retail sales rose by 0.2% in May, bucking expectations that sales would drop. Sales are now up for two months in a row for the first time since November of last year. U.K. retail sales offer up no clear pattern of acceleration or [...]
- Global| Jun 17 2015
EMU Inflation Makes First Rise in Six Months; Divergence Is Still an Issue
EMU inflation has a year-over-year gain for the first time in six months. With the effect of falling oil out of the way, inflation is again headed higher. But what will that mean for the euro area? One thing history and the financial [...]
- Global| Jun 15 2015
EMU Trade Surplus Expands in April
EMU exports rose as imports fell in April, propelling the trade surplus to a gain over its March level. The surplus is now at a new high in this cycle. EMU exports are showing sequentially stronger growth rates with export growth over [...]
- Global| Jun 12 2015
Euro Area IP Slows to a Crawl in April But Holds to Solid Trends
Industrial production in the euro area has slowed to a crawl as ex-construction output rose by just 0.1% in April after a 0.4% decrease in March. Manufacturing output rose by a stronger 0.3% after a 0.2% March decline. Despite these [...]
- Global| Jun 11 2015
Portuguese Inflation Takes Hold
Inflation in Portugal is now rising sharply. Year-over-year inflation is still tepid, below 1% in both the HICP and National inflation definitions. But over three months, inflation is at a 4.5% annual rate on the HICP definition and [...]
- Global| Jun 10 2015
French Manufacturing Continues to Struggle
French industrial production has hovered around a zero annual growth rate for several years. May's 2.1% month-to-month drop leaves IP shrinking by 3.7% year-over-year. Sequential growth rates show that recent IP trends have become [...]
- Global| Jun 09 2015
Japan's Consumer Confidence Takes Small Step Back
Japan's consumer confidence index fell for the second month in a row. The confidence reading for May sits in the 48th percentile of its longer historic queue of data back to 1992. The raw reading of 41.4 is itself a diffusion reading [...]
- Global| Jun 08 2015
German IP Heads Higher
German capital goods sector turns sharply higher as the rest of IP continues to struggle. Industrial output rose by 0.9% in April after a 0.4% decline in March. Overall IP growth is advancing on all horizons with growth in a 3.4% to [...]
- Global| Jun 05 2015
German Orders Advance
German orders rose for the second consecutive month for the first time since October 2014. The rise was driven by foreign orders which gained 5.5% in April as domestic orders tanked, falling by 3.8% on the month, but that was after a [...]
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