Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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

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The latest release of the Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Index showed a notable monthly decline of 3.3% since July suggesting that the n...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – October 20 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...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

New Residential Construction Report: September 2010

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Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed a slight gain to both single family permits and single family starts suggesting that hou...
Monday, October 18, 2010

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

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Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a continued slight increa...

Production Pullback: Industrial Production September 2010

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Today, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production showing a sudden pullback with total industrial production...
Friday, October 15, 2010

The Empire State Manufacturing Index: October 2010

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The Empire State Manufacturing Survey consists of a series of diffusion indices distilled from a monthly survey of New York regional manufa...

University of Michigan Survey of Consumers October 2010

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Today's release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers for October indicated another decline in consumer sentiment w...

Conspicuous Correlation: Retail Sales September 2010

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Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest nominal read of retail sales showing an increase of 0.6% since August bringing the total...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims October 14 2010

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Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial claims and a decline to continued claims with a flattening trend shaping up for...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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

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The latest release of the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ (PCI) suggests that the economic activity slipped again September with the...

A Policy Junkie Food Stamps Extravaganza!

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First, I’d like to preface this post by citing the most recent statistics for the federal food stamps program. Currently, there are over 41 ...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – October 13 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...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Handicapping “Robo-Signing”

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Robot’s (… actually in this case mind numbed employees) fraudulently forging signatures and notarizing documents… what will banking think of...

The New “Household” Misery Index: August 2010

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Back in the 1970s and 80s the “ Misery Index ” was popularized as a measure that accurately captured the misery and malaise of the time. T...
Monday, October 11, 2010

The Fall of Greece: August 2010

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Looking at the most recent OECD economic indicators , Greece makes by far the weakest showing in all the Eurozone appearing to have clearly...