French business climate improved by two points in July, with the index rising to 95 from 93 in June. The standing of the index is its highest in 15 months. The reading for the recent trend improved much more sharply to -30 in July [...]
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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| Jul 23 2013French Businesses Are More Upbeat - Do They Know Something?
- Global| Jul 22 2013
Spain's price trends reveal global turbulence
On the surface Spain's prices appear to be fairly well behaved. In the recession producer prices, import prices and export prices all fell year-over-year. As recovery came, all these prices begin to expand year-over-year and generally [...]
- Global| Jul 19 2013
As Central Banks Struggle With Policy,
Local inflation trends seem to be launched on highly similar paths. Headline inflation in Canada is up by 1.2% compared to 1.8% in the US and 1.6% in the European Monetary Union. Canada's inflation of 1.2% is its highest since August [...]
- Global| Jul 18 2013
UK Retail sales stay off to the races
Retail sales in the United Kingdom edged higher by 0.2% in June after surging by 2.1% in May. The May rise more than offsets a 1.3% drop in April. Putting the tangled trail of retail sales together still leads the UK to a 4.1% growth [...]
- Global| Jul 17 2013
Industrial Orders Show Some Progress
Global factory order trends are not exactly calling out the global fire department to quell the blaze of growth. But the chart above clearly shows that there is a lull in the rate of decline of orders for the US, Germany and even [...]
- Global| Jul 17 2013
Zew Index Backtracks Instead of Making Progress
The expectations index of the ZEW survey backed off to 36.3 in July from 38.5 in June. One year ago the index stood at -19.6. Current index continued to advance rising to 10.6 from 8.6 in June. While markets were mostly unnerved by [...]
- Global| Jul 15 2013
Export Trends Tell an Uneven Story of Growth
Export trends in the current month appear to be negative with real export flows in five of eight countries in the table showing negative trends in May and four of them showing negative results in April. However, over three months [...]
- Global| Jul 12 2013
E-Zone IP Dips in May
Eurozone manufacturing production in May fell by 0.4% after rising by 1% in April. The output of consumer durables fell sharply, by 2.3%, posting a second drop in a row, a drop of 1.9%. Capital goods output fell by 1.5% in May. That [...]
- Global| Jul 10 2013
Europe's Industrial Healing Seems To Be Underway
EMU-wide industrial production figures are not yet available. However, we have data available for wide group of the EU- and EMU- member countries. In the month of May, nine of these countries have already reported industrial [...]
- Global| Jul 09 2013
UK Manufacturing in a Surprising Slump
UK manufacturing took an unexpected sharp turn lower, falling by 0.8% in May. The climb was led by a sharp decline in consumer goods output which fell 2.9% on the month; that made it the second consecutive monthly drop. Capital goods [...]
- Global| Jul 08 2013
OECD LEIs Show Some Comfort
According to the OECD's trend-restored and amplitude-adjusted indices, Japan and the US point to growth that is firming. In the euro-Area, European growth is gaining momentum. Italy's OECD metric shows positive momentum despite [...]
- Global| Jul 05 2013
German Orders Fall Again
German industrial orders fell by 1.3% in May after falling by 2.2% in April. The May drop marks a two consecutive month drop for overall orders. Foreign orders have fallen for two months in a row as have domestic orders marking the [...]
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