Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q4 Flow of Funds

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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: • At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemp...

Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2025

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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2025 A brief exc...

Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in February

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

YoY Measures of Inflation: Services, Goods and Shelter

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Here are a few measures of inflation: The first graph is the one Fed Chair Powell had mentioned two years ago when services less rent of s...

BLS: CPI Increased 0.2% in February; Core CPI increased 0.2%

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From the BLS : The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in February, ...

MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey

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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 11.2 percent from one week earlier...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Wednesday: CPI

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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Wednesday: • At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers As...

Lawler: Some Observations on the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Wind-Down and Reinvestment “Strategy” (Still in Quantitative Easing Mode, Just Less So)

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From housing economist Tom Lawler: From the beginning of 2020 to early June of 2022 the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet more than doubled ...

CPI Preview

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The Consumer Price Index for February is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increa...

2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in February

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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in February A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for a...