The OECD LEI is off in October. For the US index there is still some uptick in October compared to September. But Japan's index is off by 0.4% despite increasingly consistent gains in the Nikkei stock index in Japan. Germany's index [...]
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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| Dec 13 2010EMU And More Trends Are Cooling Off
- Global| Dec 09 2010
Germany’s Inflation Rates Climb
More angst in Euroland- Just in case there wasn’t enough to worry about in the e-Zone, Germany is now building a mild head of steam for inflation. The Yr/Yr rate is 1.4% while the three-month rate is 1.9%. The e-Zone as whole has an [...]
- Global| Dec 08 2010
German IP Perks Up on Capital Goods
German IP picks up after drop - The pick-up in German IP is good news. Unfortunately it is still IP rising on the back of capital goods output. The capital goods sector is the backbone of the German export machine. Capital goods [...]
- Global| Dec 07 2010
Spain’s Recovery Is Short Cut
Spain’s economy is steadily losing ground. Industrial output made a recovery and began to show Yr/Yr increases but it is now backsliding. Real retail sales cut their recession losses and flirted with making Yr/Yr gains when [...]
- Global| Dec 07 2010
Spain’s Recovery Is Short Cut
Spain’s economy is steadily losing ground. Industrial output made a recovery and began to show Yr/Yr increases but it is now backsliding. Real retail sales cut their recession losses and flirted with making Yr/Yr gains when [...]
- Global| Dec 06 2010
U.S. Payroll Increase Is Disappointing While Jobless Rate Increases
Recent labor market improvement backpedaled last month. Nonfarm payrolls rose just 39,000 after an upwardly revised 172,000 October increase. The rise disappointed Consensus forecasts for a 142,000 gain. Also disappointing was the [...]
- Global| Dec 02 2010
Internal Divergence Accentuates European Financial Crisis Or…Hitting a Bull’s Eye in the Wrong Target
Symptoms Vs disease - When talking about the EMU and its financial troubles we speak of its banks and the interest differentials paid on government debt and a host of financial data. These financial indicators are the manifestations [...]
- Global| Dec 01 2010
German Retail Sales Jump to Get Back to Zero
German retail sales fell in August plummeted in September then ratcheted higher in October leaving the growth of retail sales at zero over three months. Over six months and 12-months the rate is the same at just below a pace of 4%. In [...]
- Global| Nov 30 2010
All Growth Rates Agree – Can They All Be Wrong?
Japan’s industrial production index is slowing over three-months and over six months.It is also falling in each of the last five months and of course, over three months, and also over six months. Weakness in the output of consumer [...]
- Global| Nov 29 2010
EU Indices Show Improvement and Signs of Strain, Too
By sector retailing has the highest rank in its historic queue of values followed by the industrial sector. Construction is the weakest sector followed by services. But the change in the services index this month was the 13th largest [...]
While Germany's IFO survey is still looking to be bullet-proof in October orders fell and fell sharply in September, setting a pattern to be followed throughout the e-Zone (see the accompanying table). German domestic orders dropped [...]
- Global| Nov 23 2010
Flash PMIs for EMU Unexpected Recovery
The FLASH PMI measures for Services and Manufacturing in EMU outran expectations in November. Not only did they not fall as had been expected, but their increases were outsized. The Services index advanced from 53.35 to 55.20 making [...]
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