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Today’s Data: Durable Goods, Income and Spending, New Home Sales and Prices
Today’s Data: 3Q GDP Revisions, Initial Claims and more
Big day for data as Q3 GDP was revised downward again, initial claims fell, The Chicago National Activity Index fell again, housing prices reversed course and leading indicators increased and consumer sentiment improved.
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Today’s Data: Mortgage Applications, Home Sales Revisions
Mortgage applications fell last week. A sweeping revision to the data method has sharply lowered the last 5 years of existing home sales reports. But last month, sales rose.
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Today’s Data: Housing Starts and Retail Sales
Housing starts jumped, but mostly due to multi-family dwellings. Retail sales improved, but still down for the month.
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Today’s Data: Mortgage Apps, Import and Export prices
Mortgage applications rose, purchases dropped and re-finance applications up. The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 4.12%. Import prices rose due to spikes in petroleum prices, Export prices also rose.
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Today’s Data: Retail Sales, Inventories, Optimism and Ceridian
Mixed data today with retail sales disappointing, inventories building moderately and the Ceridian pulse Index barely budging.
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Louisiana is Leading the Nation in Global Export Growth
Leading overall growth of U.S. exports, Louisiana's year-to-date 2011 worldwide merchandise exports increased by 45% in value over the same period in 2010, according to a report issued today by the World Trade Center of New Orleans. Through the third quarter, Louisiana exports totaled $39.8 billion, compared to $27.4 billion the previous year.
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Today’s Data: Trade and Consumer Sentiment
The U.S. trade deficit shrank in October with both imports and exports declining. The consumer sentiment index–while still at fairly depressed levels–rose.
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Today’s Data: Initial Claims, Consumer Comfort and Wholesale Inventories
Initial Claims were down, Consumer Comfort steady and Wholesale Inventories jumped.
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Today’s Data
The only economic release today is that the Mortgage Bankers Association reports that mortgage applications bounced back after Thanksgiving, up 12.8% last week. Purchases were up 8.3%, and refinance applications rose 15.3%.
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Todays Data: Retail Sales
Today’s economic statistical releases are limited to retail sales numbers for the past week. Redbook and ICSC Goldman both show a lull in retail sales.
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Today’s Data: Factory Orders and ISM Services
Factory orders fell in October and the non-manufacturing ISM shows some slowing in the service sector.
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Today’s Data: Mortgage Apps, Durable Goods, Personal Spending, Initial Claims, etc.
It was a big day for data, and it was mixed.
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Today’s Data: GDP, Richmond Fed, Profits and Retail Sales
The big story is Q3 GDP has been revised downward.
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Today’s Data: Chicago Fed and Home Sales
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index rose to -0.13, indicating that economic growth, while improving, is still below trend. Existing home sales rose 1.4 percent in October to a 4.97 million annual rate. Sales are up 13.5% on a year-over-year basis.
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Today’s Data: Jobless Claims, Housing Starts, Consumer Comfort, Philly Fed and E-Commerce
Today we look at a decline in jobless claims, an increase in housing starts, improving consumer comfort and E-Commerce with only the Philly Fed disappointing.
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Today’s Data: CPI, Mortgage Apps, Industrial Production and Housing
Today we look at Inflation data, Mortgage Applications, Industrial Production and utilization, and the Housing Market Index.
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Today’s Data: PPI, Retail Sales and the Empire Sate
The Producer Price Index, Retail Sales and the Empire Sate manufacturing Index were all released today...
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Today’s Data: Italian Contagion
The trade deficit improved last month, falling to -$43.1 billion. Sadly, the improvement comes largely from gold purchases, which isn’t a sign of confidence or hope. It’s a sign of a panicked flight to safety, based on a growing financial terror about the Euro Zone.
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Today’s Data: Mortgage Purchases, Ceridian Pulse
Thanks to the debt crisis in Europe, interest rates are dropping here, and the Mortgage Bankers Associations says that’s why purchase applications jumped 10.3% last week.The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index rose 1.1% in October after three consecutive negative months.
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