Thursday, August 10, 2017

Friday: CPI

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From Professor Krugman: How Bad Will It Be If We Hit The Debt Ceiling? [I]t looks fairly likely that by October or so there will come a d...

Hotels: Occupancy Rate Down Year-over-Year

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From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotel results for week ending 5 August The U.S. hotel industry reported mostly negative year-over-year resu...

Fannie and Freddie: REO inventory declined in Q2, Down 30% Year-over-year

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Fannie and Freddie reported results last week. Here is some information on Real Estate Owned (REOs). Freddie Mac reported the number of R...

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase to 244,000

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The DOL reported : In the week ending August 5, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 244,000, an increase of 3,00...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI

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From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: New 2017 Lows for Rates, But There's a Catch Mortgage rates fell to new lows for the year ...

Update: Framing Lumber Prices Up Year-over-year

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Here is another update on framing lumber prices. Early in 2013 lumber prices came close to the housing bubble highs - and prices are once a...

Goldman on the "Debt Limit"

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A few brief excerpts from some analysis by Goldman Sachs economists: The Treasury projects that the debt limit will need to be raised by S...

MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest Weekly Survey

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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 3.0 percent from one week earlier...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Leading Index for Commercial Real Estate "Stumbles" in July

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Note: This index is possibly a leading indicator for new non-residential Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment, except manufacturing. Fr...

Corelogic: "May 2017 Delinquency Rate Lowest in Nearly a Decade"

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From Corelogic: May 2017 Delinquency Rate Lowest in Nearly a Decade CoreLogic® ... today released its monthly Loan Performance Insights Re...