Lumber Prices near Housing Bubble High
Demand for lumber is increasing, but demand is still far below... levels during... housing bubble. However supply is lower than during... bubble years too. There...
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Tuesday: Small Business Confidence, Job Openings
• At 10:00 AM, The BLS will released the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for February. The number of job openings (yellow) has generally...
Labor Force Participation Rate Update
A key point: The recent decline...n the participation rate was mostly expected, and most of the decline...n the participation rate was due to changing demographics...
Over There: Portugal
From the NY Times: New Trouble for Euro in Portugal In an address to his beleaguered nation on Sunday, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho warned...
Sunday Night Futures
An interesting article from Nick Timiraos at the WSJ: Housing Prices Are on a Tear, Thanks to the Fed Prices of existing homes rose 10%...
Graphs for Construction Employment, Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education and Diffusion Indexes
Graphs for Construction Employment, Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education and Diffusion Indexes by Bill McBride on 4/07/2013 02:27:00 PM Earlier on the employment report:...
Unofficial Problem Bank list declines to 790 Institutions, Q1 Transition Matrix
This is...n unofficial list of Problem Banks compiled only from public sources. Here is the unofficial problem bank list for Apr 5, 2013. Changes...nd comments...
Summary for Week ending April 5th
"Disappointing" and "below expectations" were the most used phrases to describe the economic releases last week. Even though growth in Q1 was better than in...
Employment Report Comments and more Graphs
Employment Report Comments and more Graphs by Bill McBride on 4/05/2013 01:57:00 PM The 88 thousand payroll jobs added... March is from the establishment survey (a...
March Employment Report: 88,000 Jobs, 7.6% Unemployment Rate
From... BLS: Nonfarm payroll employment edged up in March (+88,000), and... unemployment rate was little changed at 7.6 percent,... U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported...