Author : Calculated Risk

From SacRealtor.org: Spring Surge: sales volume, median sales price increase for the monthMarch ended with 1,395 sales, marking a 23.3% increase from the 1,131 sales...

Earlier for the NY Fed: Empire State Manufacturing Survey Business activity grew at a solid clip in New York State, according to firms responding to...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 69 in April, down from 70 in March. Any number above...

On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.6 percent from February to March (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.5 percent from March 2017.From the...

Weekend:• Schedule for Week of Apr 15, 2018Monday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Retail sales for March will be released.  The consensus is for a 0.4%...

By request, a couple more graphs based on the February Personal Income and Outlays report. The first graph is for the personal saving rate. Click...

The key economic reports this week are March Housing Starts and Retail Sales.For manufacturing, March industrial production, and the April New York, and Philly Fed...

Note: The Chinese New Year boosted inbound traffic in February, and slowed inbound traffic in March this year.Container traffic gives us an idea about the...

A few comments from Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors LLC on Apr 13, 2018:• Total US oil rigs were up, +7 to 815• Horizontal...

Here are few Q1 GDP forecast.From Merrill Lynch:We continue to track 1.8% for 1Q GDP. [April 13 estimate].And from the Altanta Fed: GDPNowThe GDPNow model...