Friday, October 13, 2017

Oil Rigs "The US oil rig count eased back again"

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A few comments from Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors LLC on Oct 13, 2017: • The US oil rig count eased back again • Total US o...

Sacramento Housing in September: Sales down 5% YoY, Active Inventory down 5% YoY

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During the recession, I started following the Sacramento market to look for changes in the mix of houses sold (equity, REOs, and short sales...

Key Measures Show Inflation mostly below 2% in September

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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 ...

Cost of Living Adjustment increases 2.0% in 2018, Contribution Base increased to $128,700

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With the release of the CPI report this morning, we now know the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), and the contribution base for 2018. Fro...

Retail Sales increased 1.6% in September

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On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 1.6 percent from August to September(seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.4 percent from Sep...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Friday: Retail Sales, CPI and 2018 COLA

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Friday: • At 8:30 AM ET, The Consumer Price Index for September from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.6% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% inc...

LA area Port Traffic: Imports increased, Exports decreased in September

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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...

Hotel Occupancy Rate increases YoY, Just behind Record Year

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From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotel results for week ending 7 October The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year results in...

Update: Real Estate Agent Boom and Bust

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Way back in 2005, I posted a graph of the Real Estate Agent Boom . Here is another update to the graph. The graph shows the number of rea...

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 243,000

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The DOL reported : In the week ending October 7, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 243,000 , a decrease of 15,...