Consumer Confidence in the UK according to GFK has dropped again in December marking a two-month backtrack in the index. The current household financial situation is in the bottom 9 percentile of its range but the major purchase index [...]
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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| Dec 18 2009UK Consumer Confidence Continues Backtrack
- Global| Dec 18 2009
UK Consumer Confidence Continues Backtrack
Consumer Confidence in the UK according to GFK has dropped again in December marking a two-month backtrack in the index. The current household financial situation is in the bottom 9 percentile of its range but the major purchase index [...]
- Global| Dec 17 2009
UK Retail Sales Take A Sett Back In November But Cling To Trend Rise
UK retail sales volumes fell by 0.3% in November after having rise in October. Sales volumes have risen twice in the last three-months and seven times in the last 12-months. The three-month rate of growth has dipped below the six- [...]
- Global| Dec 16 2009
Japan's Service Sector Shows Improvement
Japan’s service sector as gauged by its tertiary sector index advanced in October after registering a drop in September. The index is down by 4.3 percent over 12-months compared to MFG and mining where the index is down by 14% over [...]
- Global| Dec 14 2009
EMU MFG Progress Hits The Skids.... More Questions Arise In Japan Despite Improved Tankan
Industrial output in EMU has backtracked. The 0.3% drop in October flattens out progress in the sector and leaves manufacturing IP flat in the fourth quarter compared to its level in Q3. Consumer goods output is off sharply in the new [...]
- Global| Dec 11 2009
Inflation's acceleration is clear, so is the policy conundrum
While it would seem to pose a conundrum for the Bank of England, few are expecting any monetary response to the rising inflation trends that are developing in the UK. Both core and headline factory gate prices are showing the same [...]
- Global| Dec 10 2009
Foreign orders drive recovery
Machinery orders are a volatile measure almost by design. Because of the lumpy nature and large scope of some projects it is hard to get a reliable reading on this series. Looking at core orders is one way to stabilize the signal. [...]
- Global| Dec 09 2009
UK Trade Deficit Widens....On Rising Exports And Imports
Despite faster export than import growth in October, the UK trade deficit widened in October as the larger sterling size of imports translated a smaller percentage gain in imports into a larger gain in sterling terms than for exports. [...]
- Global| Dec 03 2009
EMU PMI Rises Strongly In November
In November the Services PMI rose to 53.04 from 52.58. The services PMI stands in the 63rd percentile of its range. As such it is stronger than the EMU commission index for the sector that is only in the 47th percentile of its range. [...]
- Global| Dec 02 2009
PPI Heats Up in the Euro Area
The EMU PPI has turned up in October pushing the three month headline PPI series to an annual rate gain of 4.1%. Main categories (independently seasonally adjusted) all show declines in October while the headline (ex construction) [...]
- Global| Dec 01 2009
German Retail Sales Rise But Amass No Momentum
German retail sales rose in October, reversing a drop in September, but sales continue to show negative momentum. The sequential nominal rates of growth from 12-months to 6-months to 3-months all are clustered around a minus 3% growth [...]
- Global| Nov 30 2009
EMU Prices Rise - Has The Worm Tuned?
EMU prices rose in October. Trends are still good but core inflation is showing a hint of acceleration as three month core prices are up at a 1.4% annual rate above their six-month and 12-month pace of increase. Headline inflation [...]
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