German orders returned to their expansion path in January. Orders rose by 1.2% in January after slipping by 0.2% in December. Foreign orders rose by 1% while domestic orders advanced by 1.6% in January. Foreign orders rose for 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.
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Global| Mar 06 2014German Orders Recover and Show Strength
- Global| Mar 05 2014
Services Mostly Turn Higher in EMU
The services sector in the European Monetary Union improved in February, registering a diffusion value of 52.57, up from 51.57 in January. The 12-month average for the diffusion metric is 49.94. The euro area has progressed to a point [...]
- Global| Mar 04 2014
EMU PPI Is Softer Faster-Is That Good or Bad News in This Troubled Time?
EMU producer prices continue to crash and burn. While the European Central Bank has its focus on consumer prices using the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), the ongoing drop in PPI prices will give the ECB plenty of [...]
- Global| Mar 03 2014
EMU PMIs Back-off: Worried?
The peculiar case of the EMU slowdown: Just as everyone has begun to agree that the European Monetary Union (EMU) is in a state of recovery, that recovery has begun to downshift. In Q4 much of the euro area emerged from a long, [...]
- Global| Feb 27 2014
EU and EMU Sentiment Rise in February
The EMU overall sentiment gauge and the reading on the EU overall rose in February. The sector readings for the whole of the EU show weakening consumer confidence in the month, a flat construction sector and a small rise in the [...]
- Global| Feb 26 2014
German Climate Improves
The estimate of German consumer confidence in March has moved higher, according to the research group GfK. At a level of 8.5 Germany's consumer climate was last higher in January 2007; it was above its current level for a period of [...]
- Global| Feb 25 2014
German GDP Affirmed EU Commission Ups Outlook
German GDP: German GDP was affirmed at a 1.5% annual rate gain in the fourth quarter. However Germany continues to have the same issues for which it has been criticized over the past year. One of the stronger components of German [...]
- Global| Feb 24 2014
German Economic Climate Improves as Expectations Sag
Economic climate continued to improve in Germany through February. However, the survey by the Ifo shows some cracks in the solidity of German growth. The climate index increased to 14.9 in February from 13.7 in January. Improvement [...]
- Global| Feb 21 2014
How Healthy Is the Euro Area?
The euro area is making an economic recovery but ones may wonder whether it will last. Economic growth has begun to progress even in countries that had been reporting GDP declines. However, economic cycles come and go and not all of [...]
- Global| Feb 20 2014
Europe's PMIs Bend Lower-What Else Is Bending?
There has been such ecstasy about Europe turning the corner on growth that little attention has been paid to the slow speed of that turn. If you have been watching figure skating at the Olympics, you have seen the role of speed and [...]
- Global| Feb 19 2014
Greek Trade Trends Still Hit Sour Notes
The Greek merchandise trade deficit slipped deeper into red-ink territory in December, falling to 1.5 billion euro from a 1.3 billion euro deficit in November. At this point it's not clear what we would consider as truly good news for [...]
- Global| Feb 18 2014
ZEW German Expectations Back Off
The ZEW German index for February shows a significant climb in the current index as expectations were set back for the second month in a row, this time substantially. The current index rose to 50 this month from a level of 41.2 in [...]
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