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Case-Schiller Show Slight Jump In Home Prices, But Data Is Old

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The Case-Schiller Home Price Indices which measures house values in the top 10 and top 20 US markets, showed a very modest increase from the depths of the housing crisis last year. The 10-city composite was up 4.6% and the 2-city figure was higher by 3.4%. Eighteen of the 20 markets showed improvement from March.

But the data is very old for a key economic indicator. Most of the measurement was done nearly 90 days ago. and there is a great deal of evidence that home sales and values have dropped since then. The federal homebuyer tax credit expired on April 30. Foreclosure rates are extremely high by most measures. New home starts and existing home sales are also troubled.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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