Year-over-year most money supply measures for key countries are still showing solid-to-too-strong growth. The UK is at 11% and the US at 7.8% compared to Japan at 2.8% and EMU at 5.3%. But the developing story is the decay in monetary [...]
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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| Sep 25 2009Money Supplies: Weakening, Surprise!
- Global| Sep 24 2009
Germany's IFO Continues Steady Gain; Still Pessimists Deride Result
A slower pace of improvement in September - The pace of improvement in the diffusion and headline index barometers for Germany’s IFO are slowing their rate of gain this month. After averaging increases of 3.3 points per month since [...]
- Global| Sep 23 2009
PMIS Show Continued Growth In Europe
The EMU PMIs are up again – and, for the second month running, the overall business index is over 50, showing positive growth. The two main PMI components improved again in September with MFG index up to 40.04 from 48.24 and the [...]
- Global| Sep 22 2009
Canadian Retail Sales Are Digging Out Slowly
Retail sales in Canada fell by 0.6% in July following a surge in growth of 1% in June and of 1.1% in May. In the new quarter retail sales are expanding at a 3% pace in nominal terms. For the quarter supermarket sales are dropping. [...]
- Global| Sep 21 2009
Industrial Orders Keep Rising In France And In Italy Pessimism Continues To Haunt The Outlook, However
French orders were up by a solid 2% in July as foreign orders surged by 14%. In Italy orders jumped by 3.2% on foreign order strength of 15.6%. Both Italy and France as seeing strong orders in the new quarter (Q3, one month in) led by [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2009
German PPI Rises And Sets Sites On A New Horizon
August following and outsized drop of 1.6% in July. Even so the drop in German PPI prices is becoming progressively smaller. Over three-months the pace of decline for PPI-ex-construction prices is 4.4% compared to a larger 6.9% pace [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2009
German PPI Rises And Sets Sites On A New Horizon
August following and outsized drop of 1.6% in July. Even so the drop in German PPI prices is becoming progressively smaller. Over three-months the pace of decline for PPI-ex-construction prices is 4.4% compared to a larger 6.9% pace [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2009
Euro Trade Surplus Surges
Exports rose sharply in the e-Zone in July posting a gain of 4.1% in the month as imports edged lower by 0.3%. The widening surplus will boost EMU GDP and surpluses have emerged and steadily widened over the last four months. The [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2009
Housing Starts Show Turns Across Regions
Yr/Yr regional housing markets all are still declining, of course, but the pace of the drop is diminishing across each of the main regions. The turn is clear but to keep it in gear will require more growth. With the first time home [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2009
Housing Starts Show Turns AcrossRegions
Yr/Yr regional housing markets all are still declining, of course, but the pace of the drop is diminishing across each of the main regions. The turn is clear but to keep it in gear will require more growth. With the first time home [...]
- Global| Sep 16 2009
HICP and Core Rate Are in Good Shape but Some Trends are Not
The EMU HICP finalized with August’s headline rate rising by 0.5% in and still dropping by 0.2% Yr/Yr. Core prices rose by 0.2% in August and rose by 1.2% Yr/Yr – a moderate result and indicating that inflation pressures are within [...]
- Global| Sep 16 2009
CPI Headline Pops but Core Rate Flat Lines
Headline rises 0.4% core rises 0.1% for second month in a row The summary table shows that inflation remains contained for the most part. Energy prices rose 8.5% in August slamming the headline and lien items with energy in them. But [...]
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