by Calculated Risk on 4/15/2025 02:38:00 PM From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: February 2025 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics With the combined factors of a tough comparison to last year when Super Bowl LVIII was held in the destination, a net decrease in the convention segment tied to rotation cycles, and one fewer day on…
by Calculated Risk on 4/15/2025 08:11:00 AM Eleven years ago, I wrote: Census Bureau: Largest 5-year Population Cohort is now the “20 to 24” Age Group. Those people are now in the 30 to 34 cohort. This month the Census Bureau released the population estimates for July 2024 by age, and I’ve updated the table…
by Calculated Risk on 4/14/2025 07:54:00 PM From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Fall Back Below 7% Last Friday was notable in that it was the first day since February 19th where the average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate ended the day over 7%. Last week was also notable for ranking…
by Calculated Risk on 4/14/2025 02:49:00 PM From housing economist Tom Lawler: Update on Mortgage/MBS Rates and Spreads On April 4th, the day after Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, the so-called 30-year “current-coupon” MBS yield closed at 5.34%, its lowest level since the middle of last October. Last week’s bond market debacle, however, hit the…
by Calculated Risk on 4/14/2025 11:16:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing Home Inventory appear Different A brief excerpt: We are in a period of significant policy uncertainty and there isn’t a good historical analog for the current period. However, for housing, the key will…
by Calculated Risk on 4/13/2025 06:22:00 PM Weekend:• Schedule for Week of April 13, 2025 Monday:• No major economic releases scheduled. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up 48 and DOW futures are up 250 (fair value). Oil prices were down over the last week with WTI futures at $61.50 per…
by Calculated Risk on 4/13/2025 08:31:00 AM The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index for March will be released on April 30th. The data released so far suggests the PCE inflation will be soft in March. From Goldman Sachs economists: The producer price index (PPI), the PPI excluding food and energy, and the PPI excluding…
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. • Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-April 2025 • Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-April 2025 • 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in March • ICE Mortgage Monitor: Home…
by Calculated Risk on 4/12/2025 08:11:00 AM The key reports this week are March Retail Sales and Housing Starts. For manufacturing, the March Industrial Production report, and NY and Philly Fed surveys will be released this week. Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks on Wednesday. —– Monday, April 14th —– No major economic releases scheduled. —–…
by Calculated Risk on 4/11/2025 07:27:00 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…