by Calculated Risk on 9/22/2024 07:55:00 PM Weekend:• Schedule for Week of September 22, 2024 Monday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Chicago Fed National Activity Index for August. This is a composite index of other data. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are mostly unchanged (fair value). Oil prices were…
by Calculated Risk on 9/22/2024 08:22:00 AM For fun: Through August 2024, the employment report indicated positive job growth for 44 consecutive months, putting the current streak in 5th place of the longest job streaks in US history (since 1939). Trivia: The only presidential term that saw job growth every month was President Obama’s 2nd…
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. • NAR: Existing-Home Sales Decreased to 3.86 million SAAR in August • Housing Starts Increased to 1.356 million Annual Rate in August • Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-September 2024 • Q2 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures…
by Calculated Risk on 9/21/2024 08:11:00 AM The key reports this week are August New Home sales, the third estimate of Q2 GDP, Personal Income and Outlays for August, and Case-Shiller house prices for July. For manufacturing, the Richmond and Kansas City Fed manufacturing surveys will be released this week. —– Monday, September 23rd —–…
by Calculated Risk on 9/20/2024 06:44:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I’m currently using 4 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: “Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report COVID-19 hospital admissions, hospital…
by Calculated Risk on 9/20/2024 11:26:00 AM From Goldman: We left our Q3 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at +3.0% (quarter-over-quarter annualized) and our domestic final sales forecast unchanged at +2.9%.emphasis added [Sept 19th estimate] And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third…
by Calculated Risk on 9/20/2024 09:01:00 AM The U.S. hotel industry reported mostly negative year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 14 September. … 8-14 September 2024 (percentage change from comparable week in 2023): • Occupancy: 66.6% (-1.7%)• Average daily rate (ADR): US$162.05 (+0.2%)• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$107.86 (-1.4%)emphasis added The following…
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • At 10:00 AM ET, State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) for August 2024 Source link
by Calculated Risk on 9/19/2024 02:48:00 PM What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For August, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 5.8% YoY, but still down 26.4% compared to the 2017 to 2019 same month levels. …
by Calculated Risk on 9/19/2024 11:15:00 AM Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NAR: Existing-Home Sales Decreased to 3.86 million SAAR in August Excerpt: Sales Year-over-Year and Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA) The fourth graph shows existing home sales by month for 2023 and 2024. Sales declined 4.2% year-over-year compared to August 2023. This was…