Merrill Lynch: Some Signs of Slowing at Housing High End
A brief except from a research piece by Michelle Meyer at Merrill Lynch: The ding of the trolley [R]ecent data smells of a slowdown in...
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Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Slightly Negative in Q1
Note: This is not Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW) data from the Fed. The last MEW data from Fed economist Dr. Kennedy was for Q4 2008.The...
Fed’s Flow of Funds: Household Net Worth increased in Q1
The Federal Reserve released the Q1 2016 Flow of Funds report today: Flow of Funds. According to the Fed, household net worth increased in Q1...
CoreLogic: “268,000 US Homeowners Regained Equity in the First Quarter of 2016”
From CoreLogic: CoreLogic Reports 268,000 US Homeowners Regained Equity in the First Quarter of 2016CoreLogic ... today released a new analysis showing 268,000 homeowners regained...
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 264,000
In the week ending June 4, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 264,000, a decrease of 4,000 from the previous week's revised...
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Q1 Flow of Funds
Earlier today the Q1 Quarterly Services Report was released. Economist Joseph Brusuelas noted that this should boost Q1 PCE from 1.9% to 2.4% annualized growth...
Lehner: “The Housing Trilemma”
Josh Lehner, at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, has an interesting post today: The Housing TrilemmaEvery city wants to have a strong local economy,...
Zillow: Negative Equity Rate declined in Q1 2016
From Zillow: Q1 2016 Negative Equity Report: Rust Belt Overtakes Sand States as Nation's Nest of Negative EquityThe national negative equity rate – the share...
BLS: Jobs Openings increased in April
FThe number of job openings was little changed at 5.8 million on the last business day of April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported...
MBA: “Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Surve”
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly SurveMortgage applications increased 9.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage...