Wednesday, February 16, 2011

New Residential Construction Report: January 2011

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Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed notable declines for both single family permits single family starts which, considering ...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – February 16 2011

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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, February 15, 2011

Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings February 2011

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Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a flattening for most mea...

The Empire State Manufacturing Index: February 2011

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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...

Conspicuous Correlation: Retail Sales January 2011

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Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest nominal read of retail sales showing an increase of 0.3% since December bringing the tot...
Monday, February 14, 2011

The Slumping IC in BRIC

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Looking deeper into today’s OECD Leading Indicator release , one notable trend, namely the near simultaneous slowing of India and China, sti...

The Fall of Greece: December 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...

China's Engine: December 2010

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Looking at the latest release of the OECD economic indicators for China, it appears that the massive jump in economic activity seen since...

OECD Composite Leading Indicators: December 2010

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The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) publishes a wealth of data tracking the fundamental economic dynamics of...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Hoping Obama Housing Plan is For Real

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This morning the Obama administration released their plan for revamping the government’s role in the nation’s housing market and after havi...

University of Michigan Survey of Consumers February 2011 (Early)

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Today's release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers for February indicated an increase in consumer sentiment with...

The New “Household” Misery Index: December 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...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

U.S. vs Canadian Housing Price Mashup!: November 2010

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Teranet/National Bank of Canada produces a complete line of Canadian home prices indices using the same repeat sale methodology as the ...

IEIF France and European Property Prices: January 2011

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One of the most interesting and damming bits of evidence that tipped many off to the existence of a significant real estate bubble during ...

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims February 10 2011

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Today’s jobless claims report showed notable declines to both initial unemployment claims and continued unemployment claims as a significan...