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…
BloombergRetail Sales in U.S. Cool on Early Easter and Seasonable WeatherBloombergRetail sales in the US rose in April at the slowest pace of the year, showing unseasonably mild weather and pre-Easter shopping may have pulled consumers to stores the pr…
There were two major housing data releases today. One of them is important. The other was a misleading misdirection play, that is leaving its creator…
Home prices are highly seasonal, due to the different mix of homes that sell at different times of the year, but the latest reading for September shows home prices are under added pressure now; this is not just due to the high concentration of distr…
10/21/2011
The Gold Picture in Three Time Frames
by Carl Swenlin
Whenever possible it is best to look at a price index in the long-, medium-, and short-term time frames. For me that means analyzing monthly, weekly, and daily bar charts.
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April 29, 2011
The March Personal Income and Outlays report was published today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The chart below shows the monthly year-over year change in the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index since 2000. I’ve a…
The S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices reported Tuesday are, as usual, so far behind the curve that not only did they miss the “double dip”…
