Freddie Mac: Mortgage Rates Near Record Lows
From Freddie Mac today: Mortgage Rates Virtually Unchanged Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showing fixed mortgage rates...
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Fed: Consumer Deleveraging Continued in Q3, Student Debt increases
From the NY Fed: Decrease in Overall Debt Balance Continues Despite Rise in Non-Real Estate Debt In its latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and...
Greek Debt Deal Reached
Press conference here. From Reuters: Euro zone, IMF reach deal on long-term Greek debt Euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund clinched agreement...
Chicago Fed: Economic Activity Slower in October
The Chicago Fed released the national activity index (a composite index of other indicators): Economic Activity Slower in October Led by declines in production-related indicators,...
Schedule for Week of Nov 25th
Schedule for Week of Nov 25th by Bill McBride on 11/24/2012 01:01:00 PM Earlier: • Summary for Week Ending Nov 23rd Negotiations concerning the "fiscal...
Las Vegas: Visitor Traffic on pace for Record High, Convention Attendance Lags
During the recession, I wrote about the troubles in Las Vegas and included a chart of visitor and convention attendance: Lost Vegas. Since then Las...
Q3 GDP: Here come the upward revisions
Next Thursday, the BEA will release the second estimate of Q3 GDP. The consensus is GDP will be revised up to 2.8% annualized growth, from...
Europe Summit Update
No announcements yet. There is much more being dicussed at the summit than just the Greek situation. Here are a few articles ... From the WSJ: EU Leaders...
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 410,000
The DOL reports: In the week ending November 17, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 410,000, a decrease... 41,000 from the previous...
Zillow: House Prices increased 4.7% Year-over-year in October
From Zillow: October Marks 12th Consecutive Month of National Home Value Increases Zillow’s October Real Estate Market Reports, released today, show that national home... rose...