Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Hong Kong Bubble?: Hong Kong Residential Property Prices February 2011

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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...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – April 20 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, April 19, 2011

New Residential Construction Report: March 2011

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Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed a slight bounce off of last months exceptionally weak results with both single family pe...
Monday, April 18, 2011

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

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Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a slight decline for most...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Production Pullback: Industrial Production March 2011

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Today, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production showing a notable increase with total industrial productio...

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: April 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...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims April 14 2011

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Today’s jobless claims report showed a notable increase to initial unemployment claims and declined to continued unemployment claims as a s...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Beveridge Curve Balancing Act: February 2011

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Looking deeper at today’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover report you can see that while the unemployment rate is showing notable signs of...

Economic Jolt: Job Openings and Labor Turnover February 2011

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Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their latest monthly read of job availability and labor turnover (JOLT) showing that private...

Conspicuous Correlation: Retail Sales March 2011

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Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest nominal read of retail sales showing an increase of 0.4% since February bringing the tot...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – April 13 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, April 12, 2011

Fannie Mae Delinquencies: February 2011

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The latest release of the Fannie Mae Monthly Summary indicated that for data through January, total serious single family delinquency conti...

The Globe of Bubbles!?: U.K. vs U.S. Home Prices March 2011

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One of the more interesting and most dramatic features of the housing bubble days was how pervasive and broad the mania was, encompassing a ...

U.K. Home Prices: Halifax and Nationwide March 2011

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The latest release of the two most prominent home price indices for the United Kingdom are continuing to signal weakness with continued slug...
Monday, April 11, 2011

The Fall of Greece: February 2011

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Looking at the most recent OECD economic indicators , Greece makes by far the weakest showing in all the Eurozone as it continues to plod t...