Germany’s manufacturing PPI surged by 0.5% in March elevating the 12-month inflation rate to 4.2% and keeping inflation accelerating from 12 months to three months, as the three-month rate climbed to 6.4% (saar). Ex-energy the [...]
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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| Apr 18 2008German PPI Spurts in March
- Global| Apr 18 2008
German PPI Spurts in March
Germany’s manufacturing PPI surged by 0.5% in March elevating the 12-month inflation rate to 4.2% and keeping inflation accelerating from 12 months to three months, as the three-month rate climbed to 6.4% (saar). Ex-energy the [...]
- Global| Apr 17 2008
Japan's IP is Revised Sharply Higher: Still Growth Trends are Mixed
Japan's February industrial production was revised up sharply using a new data formula. Production is now in line with Japan’s strong exports, solving one of the puzzles about the economy for the Bank of Japan. Industrial production [...]
- Global| Apr 17 2008
EMU Trade Deficit Shoots Back Into Surplus
The Euro Area is not going to make it easy for us to understand it. After two months of deficits, the trade surplus is back. Imports fell across the board in February paving the way for the trade improvement. Both export and import [...]
- Global| Apr 16 2008
Already High, Euro Area Inflation is Revised Up
Euro Area inflation was revised higher in March and now is expanding at a 3.6% annual rate, not quite as fast as the universe, but fast enough to create a gnashing of teeth at the ECB. Yesterday, Juergen Stark of the ECB said that [...]
- Global| Apr 15 2008
U.K. RICS Survey at All-time Low for House Prices
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) said that 78.5% more surveyors reported a fall than a rise in house prices in March. This was the weakest reading since RICS began the survey back in 1978. Since 1999 new sales [...]
- Global| Apr 14 2008
UK PPI Prices Soar in March
UK producer prices spurted in March with the headline rate rising to a 17 year high at 6.2% Yr/Yr. Core as headline prices continued to move up and do so in the wake of a BOE rate cut. National Statistics said that the BOE did not [...]
- Global| Apr 14 2008
Euro Area IP Looses Some Momentum
The e-Zone is showing some loss in momentum particularly among consumer goods and intermediate goods industries. Capital goods momentum has remained in tact albeit with hints of weakness in its recent volatility. In the quarter to [...]
- Global| Apr 11 2008
OECD LEIs Show Continued Slowdown Signal
The OECD Leading indicators show weakness on a broad scale especially when viewed in their preferred habitat as six month percentage changes. On that basis, however, Japan is showing some more hopeful readings (increases!) even as [...]
- Global| Apr 10 2008
French and Italian IP: Both Strong in 2008-Q1
France and Italy often put their respective industrial sectors on a common trend. Although French IP has been expanding from mid 2006 to late 2007, Italy’s IP was declining and losing momentum in that period. However from late 2007 [...]
- Global| Apr 09 2008
German Trade Picture Produces a Higher Surplus on Weak Imports
The German trade picture shows a month-to-month slowing imports and flat exports. The slowdown in both the flows may be just monthly volatility or something more ominous. So far Europeans have remained up beat on their economic [...]
- Global| Apr 09 2008
UK Output: Suddenly on the Mend
The sequential growth rates for January tell the story compared to their February counterparts: In January year/eayr output growth was 0.7% sliding to an annual rate of 0.6% over six months and to a pace of 0.4% over three months. UK [...]
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