Ironically even with the second strong month of sales increases the three-month growth rate for retail sales in the UK is plunging. Barometers and surveys of retail sales have been weak, so the rise in each of the past two months was [...]
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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 18 2008UK Retail Sales in Surprise Rise for Second Month Running
- Global| Sep 17 2008
Orders Just Fall Off the Table in the UK
Orders overall and export orders have fallen off very sharply from August to September. The decline of 16 points in month-to-month export orders in September is a record going back to 1988. This drop occurs in the face of a weakening [...]
- Global| Sep 15 2008
Italy's Inflation Hangs High
Italy’s inflation trends have yet to show decisive signs of turning lower. Italy’s total CPI is still pressing higher. The HICP Core rate shows a more hopeful sign of inflation topping but it shows no clear sign either of moving [...]
- Global| Sep 12 2008
Europe's IP Drops Yet Again…
E-zone industrial output is down for three months running. All sectors are lower m/m in July. Main EU/EMU countries have output lower in July with France and Spain as exceptions. But over three months all these large countries are [...]
The BOF indicator has been weak and it has been weakening. But in August the indicator put on the brakes, and actually rebounded. While every other EMU country is cutting, chopping or shaving its forecast the BoF has held firm on its [...]
- Global| Sep 11 2008
Japan Machinery Orders Go Sour
Japan’s machinery orders fell sharply in July while the so called core order series fell, but by less than had been expected. Domestic orders have been listless for a year while foreign orders have been getting quite weak since early [...]
- Global| Sep 10 2008
French IP is Jumping but not for Joy
French IP made a surprise jump of 1.2% in July but only after a larger decline in June and in the wake of a plunge in May and so that the rise has not restored any momentum to the outlook. The sequential growth rates show a steady [...]
- Global| Sep 09 2008
UK IP Unequivocally Heads Lower
UK industrial output weakness is hardly a surprise after the sharp break posted by the UK’s July PPI. Clearly, weakness is at work and it is having an impact on prices due to its severity. Manufacturing output continues to decline [...]
- Global| Sep 08 2008
A Sigh of Relief on Threadneedle Street
After a scintillating run of price increases, the UK’s PPI has finally fallen in August and the all-important core rate has dropped and decelerated. The accompanying chart shows the sharp break-off in the rate of PPI core inflation to [...]
- Global| Sep 05 2008
OECD LEIs Continue to Sag as Japan Bucks Trend
OECD Trends. The OECD trend-adjusted LEIs show clear ongoing declines. The OECD declines are getting progressively weaker for the entire area as well as for the OECD seven and for the OECD four. In the US, however, the OECD LEI is [...]
- Global| Sep 05 2008
German Sector Trends are Clear and Weak
German statistics have been weakening and the weakness in orders reported yesterday was a shock to some. Today the process of being shocked continues with stark and unexpected weakness in German industrial output. Output is off for [...]
- Global| Sep 04 2008
German Orders so Long Resistant to Weakness Have Fully Succumbed
German orders are clearly falling. Orders are dropping from domestic sources as well as from foreign sources. The degree of decline is accelerating both domestically and from overseas; the degree of the drop is substantial. The new [...]
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