Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – July 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, July 19, 2011

New Residential Construction Report: June 2011

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Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed increases to both single family permits and starts from last month but a notable decline...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Radar Watching: May 2011

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As I have noted in the past, since the home price index data provided by Radar Logic is more timely, unadjusted and un-smoothed it is parti...

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

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Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing tepid increases across mo...
Friday, July 15, 2011

University of Michigan Survey of Consumers July 2011 (Early)

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Today's early release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers for July indicated a notable worsening of consumer sent...

Production Pullback: Industrial Production June 2011

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Today, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production and capacity utilization showing slight flattening of sort...

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: July 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, July 14, 2011

Fake It Till You Make It Fed Policy

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Listening to Bernanke over the last two days it should be clear that the Fed is going to go for another round of quantitative easing. While ...

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

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Today’s jobless claims report showed a decline to initial unemployment claims and an increase to continued claims as a rising trend was cal...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

On The Pulse: Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index June 2011

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The latest release of the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ (PCI) suggests that economic activity picked up in June with the seasonall...

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – July 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, July 12, 2011

Tackling Distress with More Flimflam Policy

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While the housing market is continues to weigh on the broader economy, the Obama administration is contemplating its next move in its ongoi...

Beveridge Curve Balancing Act: May 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 May 2011

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Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their latest monthly read of job availability and labor turnover (JOLT) showing that pri...
Monday, July 11, 2011

The Fall of Greece: May 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...