Monday, May 23, 2016

CoreLogic: Far Fewer Low Credit Score Applicants Than Before Housing Crisis

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An interesting post from Archana Pradhan at CoreLogic Far Fewer Low Credit Score Applicants Than Before Housing Crisis . An excerpt: One ...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday Night Futures

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From Tim Duy at Fed Watch: This Is Not A Drill. This Is The Real Thing. Here is his conclusion: Bottom Line: This is not a drill. This m...

An update on oil prices

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From the WSJ: Oil Prices Lower but Post Weekly Gain U.S. crude for June delivery settled down 41 cents, or 0.9%, at $47.75 a barrel on the...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Schedule for Week of May 22, 2016

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The key economic reports this week are April New Home sales, and the second estimate of Q1 GDP. ----- Monday, May 23rd ----- No economi...
Friday, May 20, 2016

A Few Comments on April Existing Home Sales

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Earlier: Existing Home Sales increased in April to 5.45 million SAAR First, please note that once again housing economist Tom Lawler naile...

BLS: Unemployment Rates stable in 41 states in April

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From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary Unemployment rates were significantly lower in April in 5 states, hig...

Existing Home Sales increased in April to 5.45 million SAAR

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From the NAR: Existing-Home Sales Rise in April for Second Straight Month Total existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Friday: Existing Home Sales

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Friday: • At 10:00 AM ET, Existing Home Sales for April from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The consensus is for 5.40 millio...

LA area Port Traffic Declined in April

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Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report sin...

Earlier: Chicago Fed "Index shows economic growth picked up in April"

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The Chicago Fed released the national activity index (a composite index of other indicators): Economic Growth Picked Up in April Led by im...