Thursday, June 14, 2007

Conspicuous Correlation: May 2007

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Yesterday, the Commerce Department released their monthly Retail Sales Report for May which continued to show an interesting divergence betw...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey - June 13 2007

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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential mortgage or...

Homebuilder Hoedown!

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Yesterday JP Morgan held their Basics and Industrials Conference bringing together, amongst others, a host of top homebuilding executives to...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Here We Go Again!: Harvard’s State of The Nation’s Housing 2007

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Like the sound of a really underhanded and unethical, broken and tired record, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies has today release...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Bust From The Past: June 2007

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In a new and recurring post, Ill attempt to compare various housing trends from today’s housing bust to similar trends seen during past hous...
Friday, June 08, 2007

Weekly Mortgage Application Data

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With all the news surrounding PIMCO's Bill Gross and the Treasury’s 10 year note yield spiking over 5%, now is probably a good time to ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Constructing Capitulation: April 2007

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Not only did April’s results show further weakening of the nations housing markets, it also provided definitive proof that the housing decli...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

OFHEO Home Price Index: Q1 2007

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Last Friday, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) published their Home Price Index (HPI) data for Q1 2007 showing co...
Friday, June 01, 2007

Pending Home Sales: April 2007

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Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Pending Home Sales Report for April 2007 showing a continuation of the his...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

GDP Report: Q1 2007 Preliminary

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Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released their second installment of the Q1 2007 GDP Report showing truly anemic growth of 0....

The Fed For The Record: May FOMC Minutes

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The Federal Reserve Board yesterday released the minutes of the May Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting erasing any doubt that the...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

S&P/Case-Shiller: March 2007

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Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices for March continued to show weakness for the nation’s housing markets with th...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Gettin’ Down with Toll

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Toll Brothers ( NYSE:TOL ) reported Q2 earnings results last week confirming a $119.7 million of pretax write-downs that served to depress ...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Crashachusetts Existing Home Sales: April 2007

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This week, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) released their Existing Home Sales Report for April 2007 showing further weakne...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Existing Home Sales Report: April 2007

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Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Home Sales Report for March showing continued and uniform weakne...