
Durable goods orders were up as were personal income and spending. New home sales rose but prices declined...
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Durable goods orders were up as were personal income and spending. New home sales rose but prices declined...
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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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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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Housing starts jumped, but mostly due to multi-family dwellings. Retail sales improved, but still down for the month.
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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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Mixed data today with retail sales disappointing, inventories building moderately and the Ceridian pulse Index barely budging.
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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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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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Markit Economics has some great charts showing the global nature of the recent slowdown as measured by PMI surveys.
First up, Europe:

Initial Claims were down, Consumer Comfort steady and Wholesale Inventories jumped.
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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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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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Factory orders fell in October and the non-manufacturing ISM shows some slowing in the service sector.
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It was a big day for data, and it was mixed.
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The big story is Q3 GDP has been revised downward.
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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 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 we look at Inflation data, Mortgage Applications, Industrial Production and utilization, and the Housing Market Index.
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The Producer Price Index, Retail Sales and the Empire Sate manufacturing Index were all released today...
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From Naufall Sanaullah of Shadow Capitalism we get a nice overview of the world economy and markets.