The French household confidence reading has been stuck in a range of mostly the mid- to high-80s from August 2012 through November 2014. In just the last four months, the household indicator has broken out. Its reading of 93 is 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| Mar 27 2015French Households Begin to Feel Better... But Not Well
- Global| Mar 26 2015
EMU Trends Turn Up for Credit and Money
The EMU is showing a clear pick up in credit and money growth trends as of February 2015. It is beginning to look as though the ECB's special efforts to stimulate credit growth are starting to pay off. The QE effort is too recent to [...]
- Global| Mar 25 2015
French Business Climate Erodes and Momentum Flattens Out
The INSEE survey of French business climate slipped to 99 in March from 100 (in January and February), dipping below its historic mean (100). The reading is now slightly subnormal and below its median (rank % = 50 is its median) and [...]
- Global| Mar 24 2015
EMU Services Hold on to Strong Recovery
The euro area economic recovery continues to be led by the services sector recovery. Not only are the PMI diffusion values higher for services than for manufacturing, but the queue standings show that they are relatively much stronger [...]
- Global| Mar 23 2015
U.K. CBI Index Shows Mixed Trends
The U.K. economy is showing mixed evidence of a slipping industrial sector as industrial sector overall orders have dropped to a five-month low and to their first neutral reading in that span. Export orders are at their weakest over [...]
- Global| Mar 20 2015
Canadian Inflation; A Study in Contrast
Inflation in Canada continues weak, crawling along the bottom of the range established by the Bank of Canada. The central bank has a desired inflation in a range of 1% to 3% but also expects that inflation will drop below 1% for much [...]
- Global| Mar 19 2015
Japan's Sector Indices Struggle to Hold Ground
Japan's sector indices improved month-to-month in three of four sectors as well as overall. But year-over-year all sectors are lower and all sectors have been net lower over 12 months for seven months in a row. The Bank of Japan has [...]
- Global| Mar 18 2015
Italian Trade Trends Stagnate Along with Much Else in Europe
Italy's trade picture showed a weakening in exports and still-weak import growth as it echoed the message from the broader European trade data today. European data showed a larger surplus in January as exports remained flat and [...]
- Global| Mar 17 2015
ZEW Index Advances with Some Caution
Germany's ZEW index saw increases in both its current index and its index of expectations. Both are in `good shape' in terms of their levels and in terms of their momentum. The current index is higher than its March value historically [...]
- Global| Mar 16 2015
Japan's Consumer Confidence Hovers at Low Reading
Consumer confidence in Japan has averaged a reading of 39.4 over the last 12 months. This month's pick-up to 40.7 in February from 39.1 in January barely improves on its one-year average. Moreover, the three-month and six-month [...]
- Global| Mar 13 2015
French Sales Volumes Recover in February
French sales volumes recovered in February, rising by 1.2% after two straight monthly declines in excess of 1%. In the last four months, French sales volumes have moved by more than 1% in each month: twice up and twice down. This is [...]
- Global| Mar 12 2015
Surprise! Euro Area IP Falls
EMU industrial output fell in January by a thin 0.1%. Still, the drop was a surprise. Output in manufacturing fell by 0.3%. Overall output is up by 0.2% over the past year while manufacturing output is up by just 0.1% over the past [...]
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