Summary for Week ending February 22nd
Summary for Week ending February 22nd by Bill McBride on 2/23/2013 10:30:00 AM Here is a summary of last week in graphs: • Housing Starts...
Author : Calculated Risk
Zillow Forecasts Case-Shiller House Price Index to Increase 6.7% Year-Over-Year for December
[W]e predict that next month’s Case-Shiller data (December 2012) will show that the 20-City Composite Home Price Index (non-seasonally adjusted [NSA]) increased 6.7 percent on...
Thursday: Existing Home Sales, MBA’s Mortgage Delinquency Survey, Unemployment Claims, CPI and more
Tomorrow will be busy ... Thursday economic releases: • At 8:30 AM ET, the initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is...r...
FOMC Minutes: “Several participants” support varying QE asset purchases
FOMC...: "Several participants" support varying QE asset purchases by Bill McBride on 2/20/2013 02:14:00 PM Note: My read is the FOMC is modestly more optimistic...
Quarterly Housing Starts by Intent compared to New Home Sales
I mentioned this yesterday, see: Housing: No "Troubling Divergence" between Completions and Sales. In addition to housing starts for January, the Census Bureau released Housing...
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease, Mortgage Rates Increase
The Refinance Index decreased 2 percent from the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 2 percent from one week earlier. The refinance share...
Wednesday: Housing Starts, FOMC Minutes, PPI and More
At 8:30 AM: Housing Starts for January will be released. The consensus is for total housing starts to decrease to 914 thousand (SAAR) in January,...
Housing: No “Troubling Divergence” Between Completions and Sales
One of the few concerns about U.S. housing recovery is that building has been outpacing the sales of new homes. As such, there are fears...
Tuesday: Homebuilder Confidence Survey
A couple of interesting stories ... First, the prices for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude oil have diverged in recent years due to...
Lawler: Early Look At January Existing Home Sales
From economist Tom Lawler: While several MLS that I follow have been unusually late in releasing their monthly reports, based on the reports that I...