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Personal income and spending, Pending home sales
Economic Releases
Nov 30, 2018
No drama here: More housing weakness news: Highlights This has not been a good run for housing data. Pending home sales fell a very steep 2.6 percent in October which is far below Econoday’s consensus range. Existing home sales did end a long downturn in last week’s report but today’s results point
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Trade, New home sales, Federal interest payments
Economic Releases
Nov 30, 2018
Trade deficit still increasing: Highlights The goods portion of October’s trade deficit is deeper than expected, at $77.2 billion vs expectations for $76.9 billion and compared with a monthly average in the third-quarter of $74.6 billion. October’s data opens fourth-quarter net exports on a negative note following the third quarter when trade
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Home sales, Durable goods, Philly Fed index
Economic Releases
Nov 23, 2018
Last month revised lower and looking weak: Highlights A drop for primary metals, a sharp drop for machinery, and a reversal for defense aircraft all pulled down durable goods orders in October which fell a sharper-than-expected 4.4 percent. A very sharp downward revision to September, revised from a 0.8 percent gain to
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Housing starts
Economic Releases
Nov 21, 2018
Not good: Highlights Yesterday’s housing market index may have unexpectedly plummeted but today’s housing starts and permits report, though soft, at least is in the ballpark of expectations. Starts in October rose 1.5 percent to a 1.228 million annualized rate that compares with Econoday’s consensus for 1.240 million. Permits edged past expectations,
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Residential investment, Earnings, Saudi pricing, Vehicle sales
Economic Releases
Nov 16, 2018
Note the deceleration began with the collapse in oil capex in 2015: The year end tax cut caused a onetime increase in earnings that subsequently flattened out and may now be declining: Seems Saudis are raising prices: Stopped growing a couple of years ago:
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Mtg apps, China exports, Oil
Economic Releases
Nov 14, 2018
Continuing to be negative year over year: Highlights Rising interest rates continue to dampen mortgage activity, with purchase applications for home mortgages falling a seasonally adjusted 2.3 percent in the November 9 week to the lowest level since February 2017 while refinancing applications decreased by 4.3 percent to the lowest level since
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Consumer credit, Employment
Economic Releases
Nov 08, 2018
Highlights Consumer credit growth slowed more than expected to just $10.9 billion in September, below Econoday’s consensus range and less than half of the upwardly revised $22.9 billion August increase. Growth slowed in nonrevolving credit, which rose $11.2 billion in September versus $18.3 billion previously, while growth in revolving credit stalled completely
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Housing prices, Consumer confidence, Investment
Economic Releases
Oct 30, 2018
More housing weakness: Highlights Growth in home prices, as it is for home sales, is almost at a standstill, at least on a monthly basis for Case-Shiller’s 20-city adjusted index which inched only 0.1 percent higher in August. Year-on-year, the unadjusted index is still growing at healthy rate of 5.5 percent which,
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Personal income and spending, GDP comments, Philly index
Economic Releases
Oct 29, 2018
Income less than expected, spending ok, so savings fell: Highlights Income growth proved very slight in September with inflation steady and moderate and right on the Federal Reserve’s target. Personal income inched only 0.2 percent higher in September which misses the low end of Econoday’s consensus range. Wages & salaries are September’s
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GDP, Pending home sales, new home sales, leveraged loans, 3M chart
Economic Releases
Oct 26, 2018
Looks like without the build in private inventories GDP was about 2% lower at about 1.4%, and health care added .77% where health care premiums paid count as personal consumption. Also, the price index deflator was lower by 1.3%: Bad: Bad: Highlights Lack of available new homes has been holding sales down
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