U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the housing price index and leading economic indicators.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the housing price index, leading economic indicators and the Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey.
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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, durable goods orders, the housing price index and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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On Wednesday, we get Industrial Production, along with the Consumer Price Index and the Housing Index.
For example, the current reported inflation rate is only 1.6% (compared to a long-term average of about 3%), but this rate is depressed due to the 40% weight in the Consumer Price Index from housing.
The September Consumer Price Index, September housing starts and the periodic Beige Book will be released on Wednesday.
Still up on the U.S. economic front, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's March home price index is to be released at 9 a.m.
Tuesday brings April housing starts and permits and the April Producer Price Index (PPI).
Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's February home-price index showed a monthly rise of 0.7% in February, while new-home sales for March rose 1.5% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 417, 000.
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Tuesday will feature the September Producer Price Index (PPI) and the October National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) housing market index.
We also get more information on the housing market, with the Case-Shiller Home Price Index report Tuesday, followed by pending home sales on Wednesday.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales data, the consumer price index, Treasury international capital data, industrial production and capacity utilization, and the NAHB housing market index.
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The Consumer Price Index is out on Tuesday, along with housing starts and industrial production.
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And from the government: the Labor Department's Producer Price Index (inflation), the Commerce Department's new housing starts report and the Fed's Beige Book -- its summary of economic conditions region by region.
The housing affordability index gauges the amount of a local, median-priced home (the price at which 50% of homes are more expensive and 50% are less expensive) you can buy if you earn the local median income, given current interest rates.
Two weeks ago, real estate consulting firm Knight Frank said that China housing prices rose 9.3% in 2012, while Hong Kong housing prices rose the most out of all the 55 countries and cities in their Global House Price Index, up 23.6%.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the MBA weekly mortgage applications survey, the Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, the producer price index, Treasury capital flows, industrial production and capacity utilization, and the NAHB housing market index.
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The Index shows that after a record five years of home price declines, some metropolitan area housing markets are beginning to find their bottom.
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Of course, these theorists have not acknowledged that the broadest measure of home prices, the index calculated by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, has yet to show home-price declines that would signal any kind of "bubble" being popped.
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