3-month inflation shifts much lower. French inflation trends show Frances contribution to the Euro areas inflation trends are middle of the road. France is still not in great shape but it is not one of the problem countries on the [...]
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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.
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Global| Aug 14 2007French Long-term HICP Trend Moves Lower
- Global| Aug 14 2007
UK Inflation Turns Sharply Lower
Inflation is slowing on a broad front in the UK in July - a quite unexpected development. Year/year, the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is now below the 2% ceiling rate and suddenly that BOE inflation letter explaining why [...]
- Global| Aug 13 2007
UK PPI Trends are Pretty Flat
PPI a bit unsteady but moving sideways.
- Global| Aug 10 2007
Japan IP Rebounds in June but still has Uncertain Momentum
Industrial production in Japan has clearly been slowing down. But the three-month pace is showing more lift. Still, this is the volatile measure and its greater lift does not mean that will remain force. For the time being Japan [...]
- Global| Aug 10 2007
Industrial Production Slips and Slows in France
For the second quarter as whole, industrial production is off in France at a 1% pace. This drop is led by weakness in auto output that has fallen at a 9.2% annual rate in the quarter. But the output of consumer goods and intermediate [...]
- Global| Aug 10 2007
OECD Leading Indicators Point the Way Higher
Upswing is widespread. The OECD area is on an upswing led by the United States. That is the message from the OECD leading indicators. It is a reassuring one in the face of global credit concerns and equity market meltdown. Indicators [...]
The UK trade balance has remained fairly stable through all this volatility. The shorter growth horizons show that export growth has started to pick up at a fast pace than import growth. Yr/Yr exports are off a bit more than imports, [...]
- Global| Aug 08 2007
French Imports Out Jump Exports
France trade deficit shrank in June compared to May but it still remained large. Quarter to quarter the deficit grew by 770mn. In Q2 French imports rose at a 12.1% pace compared to exports that rose by a scant 1.8% annual rate. The [...]
- Global| Aug 08 2007
Japan Core Machinery Orders Remain Lethargic
Foreign demand for core machinery orders has spiked up now and gain in Japan, but domestic demand has remained consistently weak. The three month spike in domestic machinery orders over three months is surprising. It mostly reflects [...]
- Global| Aug 08 2007
German Surplus in Trade Remained in June but was Narrowed Sharply by Surging Imports
German trade trends are showing sharp wild swings in their interval growth rates. The trends on the accompanying chart show a more stable longer pattern from early 2006 through early mid-2007 import trends worked lower. Export trends [...]
- Global| Aug 08 2007
Japan Economy Watchers Index in Steady Decline
Trends for Japans economy-watchers index have turned lower and remain in a downtrend after having made a local peak between February and April, depending on the series. Even this local peak is part of an ongoing downtrend for the [...]
- Global| Aug 07 2007
German IP Weakens as Orders Surge
For the full quarter total German IP is up by 0.3%. Construction is off by 31% at an annual rate in Q2, accounting for much of the drag. But MFG is up by 0.8% roughly the same as for consumer goods, intermediate goods and capital [...]
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