Tuesday, April 17, 2012

New Residential Construction Report: March 2012

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Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed weak results in March with single family permits declining from February while starts al...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings April 2012

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Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a decline of all measures...

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: April 2012

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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 March 2012

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Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest nominal read of retail sales showing an increase of 0.8% from February and an increase o...
Friday, April 13, 2012

University of Michigan Survey of Consumers April 2012 (Early)

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Today's early release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers for April indicated a decline in consumer sentiment fro...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – April 11 2012

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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 10, 2012

Radar Watching: February 2012

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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...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Envisioning Employment: Employment Situation March 2012

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Today’s Employment Situation Report indicated that in March, net nonfarm payrolls increased with private nonfarm payrolls adding 120,000 j...

Full Time Workers Fully Under Pressure: March 2012

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Today’s employment situation report showed that in March the full time unemployment rate declined to 8.6% of the civilian workforce but rem...

Recovery-less Recovery: Unemployment Duration March 2012

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Be sure to bookmark the " Scary Unemployment Dashboard "... it's live. Today's employment situation report showed that ...

On The Margin: Total Unemployment March 2012

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Today’s Employment Situation report showed that in March “total unemployment” including all marginally attached workers declined to 14.5% f...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims April 05 2012

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Today’s jobless claims report showed that both initial and continued unemployment claims declined while seasonally adjusted initial claims ...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

On The Pulse: Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index March 2012

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

ADP National Employment Report: March 2012

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Today, private staffing and business services firm ADP released the latest installment of their National Employment Report indicating that...

ISM Non-Manufacturing Report on Business: March 2012

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Today, the Institute for Supply Management released their latest Non-Manufacturing Report on Business indicating that service related busi...