New Home Sales Jan. 2022
New single-family home sales declined 4.5% in January to a 0.801 million annual rate, nearly matching the consensus expected 0.803 […]
New single-family home sales declined 4.5% in January to a 0.801 million annual rate, nearly matching the consensus expected 0.803 […]
Real GDP growth in Q4 was revised up to a 7.0% annual rate from a prior estimate of 6.9%, matching […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. “Buy the dip!” That is what bullish investors and pundits sometimes say when the […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. Today’s blog post illustrates the wide disparities that often exist between the annual price […]
Existing home sales increased 6.7% in January to a 6.500 million annual rate, easily beating the consensus expected 6.100 million. […]
Housing starts declined 4.1% in January to a 1.638 million annual rate, lagging the consensus expected 1.695 million. Starts are […]
The Big Mac Index: A Measure of PPP and Burger Inflation The Big Mac was created in 1967 by Jim […]
Industrial production increased 1.4% in January, easily beating the consensus expected gain of 0.5%. Utilities output rose 9.9% in January, […]
Retail sales rose 3.8% in January (+3.7% including revisions to prior months), easily beating the consensus expected gain of 2.0%. […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 1.0% in January, well above the consensus expected +0.5%. Producer prices are up 9.7% […]
The financial markets have been on tenterhooks lately for two main reasons: Russia and rate hikes. By the time you […]
