Thursday, December 14, 2017

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 225,000

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The DOL reported : n the week ending December 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 225,000, a decrease of 11,0...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Thursday: Retail Sales, Unemployment Claims

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From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Quickly Lower After Inflation Data and Fed Mortgage rates fell fairly quickly t...

FOMC Projections and Press Conference Link

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Statement here . Yellen press conference video here . On the projections , projections for GDP in 2017 are near the top of the September...

FOMC Statement: 25bps Rate Hike

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FOMC Statement: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November indicates that the labor market has continue...

Key Measures Show Inflation Mostly Below Fed's Target

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The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI this morning: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the ...

BLS: CPI increased 0.4% in November, Core CPI increased 0.1%

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From the BLS : The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in November on a seasonally adjusted basis, the...

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 2.3 percent from one week earlier...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Wednesday: FOMC Announcement, CPI

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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 . ...

LA area Port Traffic Surges in November

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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...

Mortgage Equity Withdrawal slightly positive in Q3

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Note: This is not Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW) data from the Fed. The last MEW data from Fed economist Dr. Kennedy was for Q4 2008. ...