The seasonally adjusted rate of 300, 000 was 26.8% lower than 410, 000 rate that economists had expected.
Go out to 10-year Treasuries and the inflation adjusted rate of return currently is a flat zero.
The inflation-adjusted rate which is set by a formula that measures inflation over defined consecutive six-month periods (the current inflation adjustment is 4.6%).
Completed sales of existing homes, including single-family houses, condos and co-ops, ticked down to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.92 million sales per year in March.
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The overall pace of homes started rose 7 percent from February to March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.04 million, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
In notable economic news this week, the Commerce Department announced that US housing starts increased by 2.3% in August to the seasonally adjusted rate of 750, 000.
That matched February's inflation-adjusted rate and was higher than January's.
Aerospace production grew at a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.8% in the fourth quarter while overall U.S. manufacturing shrank 1.9%, according to the Federal Reserve and the Department of Labor.
If the seasonally adjusted rate for auto sales is now on the mend, he says, it's likely to mean unemployment, currently at 9.5%, will peak during the second half of 2010.
Nationally, U.S. existing-home sales jumped 2.1% in October from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.79 million home sales annually, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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The closely monitored Index of Economic Activity of the Central Bank, or IBC-Br, showed that the Brazilian economy grew at a seasonally adjusted rate of a disappointingly low 1.55 percent over the last 12 months.
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Singapore's Straits Times Index gained 1.4% to 2, 298.71 after Singapore's government said its economy rose at an annualized and seasonally adjusted rate of 20.4% in the second quarter, the fastest expansion in nearly six years, beating market expectations.
The home improvement market, which includes maintenance and improvement spending of both rentals and owner-occupied units, promises to rise at an inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5% per year in the coming years, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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In a world where annual inflation is running at a 3% rate (actually more if you think for a moment about your rising healthcare and educational costs), there is an overwhelming demand for a security whose rate of return is a negative real (inflation-adjusted) rate of 3%.
Sales slipped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.92 million, from 4.95 million in February.
Their full-year 2012 seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of sales was between 14 and 14.5 million units.
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The Commerce Department said new-home sales fell 7.3% month-on-month to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 369, 000 units.
The increase in the seasonally adjusted annual rate for March was fueled by a surge in apartment construction.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that builders started work at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 890, 000 homes last month.
That put the closely-watched Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of sales at 15 million vehicles, the highest rate since February 2008.
On a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), February sales are estimated at about 15.5 million units by General Motors and Chrysler.
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That would push the Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of sales to 15 million vehicles, the highest rate since February 2008.
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The seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales in November was 13.6 million units, up from 12.28 million in November 2010, according to Autodata.
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However, both strategies should include a reasonable, inflation-adjusted withdrawal rate, which seeks to protect against running out of funds at an old age.
Germany's Federal Labour Agency said the seasonally-adjusted jobless rate was unchanged in December, having added 3, 000 more unemployed people than the previous month.
The National Association of Realtors also reported that existing-home sales in December rose 6.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.47 million units.
In March housing starts clocked a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.036 million, nearly 47% higher than a year earlier, according to the Commerce Department.
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And September housing starts were up 15 percent from August, exceeding expectations and climbing to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872, 000 units, Shafer points out.
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The Commerce Department said U.S. builders began building new homes at the fastest pace since mid-2008 in March, a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.04 million homes.
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The good news was, employee pricing drove the Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate for U.S. auto sales to a record exceeding 20 million in July 2005.
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