FHFA Press Release- Washington, DC – U.S. house prices rose 0.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from March to April, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly House Price Index. The previously reported 1.8 percent increase in March was revised downward to reflect a 1.6 percent increase. For the 12 months ending in April, U.S.…
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No Truth Coming From Mortgage Bankers Ass.
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Apparently the MBAss (Mortgage Bankers Association) didn’t like the fact that someone in the financial blogo-wackosphere actually had the temerity to make use of real, hard data, that they hadn’t massaged. Now, not only do they not report the actual index level of their seasonally smoothed applications indexes, the charts of the not seasonally adjusted…
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ECRI WLI Falls Sharply
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
ECRI WLI Falls Sharply
By: The Fundamental Analyst | Aug 29, 2011 |
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The ECRI’s Weekly Leading Index (WLI) has fallen like a stone over the last couple of weeks. The latest index level of 122.8 is not far above the low of 120.3 …
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Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index: An Upside Surprise
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
May 13, 2011
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index preliminary report for May came in at 72.4, an improvement over the April final of 69.8. The Briefing.com consensus expectation had been for 69.5 and Briefing.com’s own forecast was fo…
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Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index: Virtually Unchanged
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
April 29, 2011
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index final report for April came in at 69.8, little changed from the April preliminary 69.6. The Briefing.com consensus expectation had been for 69.6 and Briefing.com’s own forecast was f…
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Cracked Economic Reports Not as Cracked Up To Be
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Two key economic reports out today require closer scrutiny. Their positive readings may not be all that they appear to be on the surface. Both the MBAA’s Mortgage Applications Index and the weekly unemployment claims were reported as positives this morning. But just how good were they?
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What Up With That?
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
So there was this big jump in mortgage purchase applications today. I thought to myself, “Hmmmm, I wonder how many will make it to closing. And I wonder what triggered the pop.” Pop is relative of course. Yeah, it was a 9% jump from last week, but the level is still 35% below last year…
