Order Trends: German new orders growth was extended as foreign orders snapped back after a one-month decline. Domestic orders fell by 1.9% after surging by 9.5% in July. Orders have been rising steadily, strongly, over the past six [...]
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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| Oct 07 2009German Orders Growth Extended
- Global| Oct 07 2009
German Orders Growth Extended
Order Trends: German new orders growth was extended as foreign orders snapped back after a one-month decline. Domestic orders fell by 1.9% after surging by 9.5% in July. Orders have been rising steadily, strongly, over the past six [...]
- Global| Oct 02 2009
PPI Points Way Higher for Euro Area Inflation
August’s EMU PPI excluding construction rose by 0.7% following a drop of 0.9% in July. Still the three-month growth rate (annualized) is now positive at 0.7% the six month growth rate is at -3.9% and the 12-month growth rate is at [...]
- Global| Oct 01 2009
Japan's Tankan Shows Up-Swing... And Less
Yes, Japan’s Tankan survey has legs and the rise in the various large company Tankan indices is ongoing. There is somewhat less vigor in the rise of the future improvement expected but it is still advancing at a solid pace and the [...]
- Global| Sep 30 2009
Consumer Confidence Spurts in UK
U.K. consumer confidence jumped in September by the most since 1995 as optimism about the economy’s prospects rebounded, according to GfK NOP. The index of confidence jumped by the greatest amount since 1995 and the level reading of [...]
- Global| Sep 29 2009
EU Index Rises For The Sixth Month In A Row, But...
The EU Commission indices for the EU area show that improvement continued in September. Still it was the smallest mo/mo gain since the string of increases began. As a percentage of their range of values the country specific readings [...]
- Global| Sep 28 2009
Italian Consumer Confidence Moves Sharply Higher
Getting better - Italian consumer confidence rose sharply higher in September. After bottoming in August of 2008, confidence made a large 4.3point jump in August 2009 and in September of 2009 it has added a further advance of 1.8 [...]
- Global| Sep 25 2009
Money Supplies: Weakening, Surprise!
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 [...]
- 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 [...]
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