Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Commercial Cataclysm!: Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index May 2010

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The latest release of the Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Index showed a notable monthly gain of 3.6% since April suggesting that the nat...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – July 21 2010

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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residen...

Facebook Founders Prepare for Battle!

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The Facebook ownership story is really starting to heat up… Yesterday, it was reported that Facebook, Inc. now acknowledges that founder Ma...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Into the Bunker!

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The skies over Boston were a-rumblin’ with thunder last night, the fireman’s siren could be heard shrieking in the distance but not even a d...

New Residential Construction Report: June 2010

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Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed a continued pullback to both single family permits and starts suggesting that housing is...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Hong Kong Bubble?: Hong Kong Residential Property Prices May 2010

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There has been much speculation recently about an ongoing price bubble occurring in the Hong Kong residential property market. The Universi...

Buyer Traffic Forecasting Decline

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Comparing the latest new residential construction data to the today's NAHB housing market indicators appears to suggest that we may co...

Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings July 2010

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Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a continued pullback for ...
Friday, July 16, 2010

University of Michigan Survey of Consumers July 2010

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Today's release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers for July showed a notable decline in consumer sentiment with ...

IEIF France and European Property Prices: June 2010

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As I have noted before, one of the most interesting and damming bits of evidence that tipped many off to the existence of a significant rea...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Recession Redux?

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As all the econ-finance talk these days appears to center around the looming “double-dip” let’s take a closer look at two particularly sen...

Production Pullback: Industrial Production June 2010

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Today, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production showing continued yet flattening growth with total industr...

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims July 15 2010

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Today’s jobless claims report showed a notable decline to initial and an large jump in continued claims with a subtle flattening continuing...

On The Pulse: Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index June 2010

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The latest release of the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ (PCI) suggests that the economic activity slowed notably in June with the ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

U.K. Home Prices: Halifax and Nationwide June 2010

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The latest release of the two most prominent home price indices for the United Kingdom are signaling that the trend up in U.K. home prices i...