Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Thursday: Unemployment Claims

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From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Fall Ahead of European Central Bank Announcement Mortgage rates moved moderatel...

Annual Employment Gains some early thoughts on 2017

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I'm starting to look at my 10 economic questions for 2017 (something I do every year). Last year I thought the unemployment rate would...

Las Vegas Real Estate in November: Sales up 30% YoY, Inventory down Sharply

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This is a key distressed market to follow since Las Vegas has seen the largest price decline of any of the Case-Shiller composite 20 cities....

BLS: Job Openings "little changed" in October

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From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary The number of job openings was little changed at 5.5 million on the last business d...

MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest Weekly Survey

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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 0.7 percent from one week earlier...
Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Wednesday: Job Openings

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Wednesday: • At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index . ...

Phoenix Real Estate in November: Sales up 30%, Inventory down 2%

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This is a key housing market to follow since Phoenix saw a large bubble / bust followed by strong investor buying. Inventory was down 2% y...

EIA: "Retail gasoline prices are forecast to average $2.30/gal in 2017"

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The EIA released the Short-Term Energy Outlook today. From the STEO: • U.S. crude oil production averaged 9.4 million barrels per day (b...

CoreLogic: House Prices up 6.7% Year-over-year in October

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Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for October . The recent Case-Shiller index release was for September. The CoreLogic HPI...

Trade Deficit at $42.6 Billion in October

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From the Department of Commerce reported : The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Comm...