Frances HICP is below 2% Y/Y at a 1.3% pace. It has since, in shorter periods of six months and three months, shown some upward pressure. The HICP core for August is not yet available, but it too has showed some pressure in recent [...]
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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 12 2007Japan’s Export and Import Growth Slow Then Rebound and Steady
Japan's current account surplus shrinks in July. The terms of trade have turned against Japan over the past year as export prices rose by just 10.2% and import prices rose by 26.3%. Exports and imports have been in a broader slowing [...]
- Global| Sep 11 2007
French Exports and Import Rebound…Imports Outpace
French import growth is persistently outstripping exports. Exports ground to a halt in July as imports rose by 0.7%. Over three months, six months and twelve months, export growth is lagging import growth. Both flows however are [...]
- Global| Sep 11 2007
UK Exports and Imports Accelerate Again – Deficit Slips
UK trade deficit widens in July as worsening trend stays in place. Trade flows in capital goods and autos are strengthening. But imports are generally holding their lead forcing the deficit deeper into red ink. Export and import flows [...]
- Global| Sep 11 2007
Japan’s Core Machinery Orders Rebound
Japan sticks with the notion that it is still growing and that orders are generally expanding, but moving more or less sideways. Recent Japan macro data have been touch-and-go. In contrast the July core machinery orders reading is [...]
- Global| Sep 10 2007
Italy’s GDP Snakes Below 2% Year-over-year
GDP slows, private consumption holds up, capital formation slows. GDP is slowing in Italys quarterly and annual framework. Private consumption has been holding up and even improving slightly, but remains at a subdued pace around the [...]
- Global| Sep 10 2007
French IP Bucks Trends with Large Gain
French industrial output is up strongly on the heels of weak numbers from Germany and the UK and with ongoing weakness in Italy. In France, industrial production jumped by 1.3% in July, boosted by autos, a sector that had been weak. [...]
- Global| Sep 10 2007
Italy’s GDP Snakes Below 2% Year-over-year
GDP slows, private consumption holds up, capital formation slows. GDP is slowing in Italys quarterly and annual framework. Private consumption has been holding up and even improving slightly, but remains at a subdued pace around the [...]
- Global| Sep 07 2007
Industrial Production Growth Slips in Germany
The ratchet lower in German production follows the sharp weakening in German industrial orders. The sequential growth rates in the table below do not show the slowing due to base effects (in April). The table shows that IP was soft in [...]
- Global| Sep 07 2007
OECD LEIs Show Upswing Has Topped Out…in July
The OECD leading indicator tells a solid story of business expansion past and future. The current reading is not quite what we would like, however. The rise in these indicators that came on a six month change basis - in March of [...]
- Global| Sep 07 2007
OECD LEIs Show Upswing Has Topped Out…in July
The OECD leading indicator tells a solid story of business expansion past and future. The current reading is not quite what we would like, however. The rise in these indicators that came on a six month change basis - in March of [...]
- Global| Sep 06 2007
UK IP on Extended Fading Growth Trend
UK industrial production trends are not uniform. Consumer durable and nondurable goods output has been steadily - and in the recent period - strongly expanding. That makes the UK unlike most EMU countries with its strong consumer [...]
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