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ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau reported this morning that construction spending in July increased by 0.6%, to an estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate of $900.8 billion from an upwardly revised...
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ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has reported that manufacturing expanded in August with a reading of 55.7%. This is up by 0.3 percentage points when compared to July’s reading...
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ThinkstockThe Markit U.S. Manufacturing PMI has released its final data for the month of August, showing a drop as output growth slowed to 10-month low. The report came in at 53.1, versus 53.7 in...
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ThinkstockAfter an unexpected jump to a six-year high 85.1 in July, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell back to earth on Friday. The final index reading for...
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ThinkstockIn its report on personal income and spending for July, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data shows that personal income in current dollars grew by 0.1% month-over-month, as did...
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ThinkstockIn its weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey, home lending giant Freddie Mac reported that mortgage rates for fixed-rate loans have pulled back a little following five weeks of increases....
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ThinkstockIn the month of July, 49,000 U.S. home foreclosures were completed, down from a revised total of 53,000 in June and down from 65,000 in July 2012, according to research firm CoreLogic Inc....
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thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 67 billion cubic feet last week, compared with an expected build of about 64 billion...
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ThinkstockThe quarter-over-quarter rise in U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was 2.5% in the second quarter of 2013, according to data released Thursday morning by the U.S. Department of Commerce....
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 3 million barrels last week,...
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ThinkstockThe National Association of Realtors (NAR) this morning released its data on pending sales of existing homes in July. The pending home sales index slipped 1.3% from an index reading of...
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ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a drop of 2.5% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index following...
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Courtesy EADS/AirbusThe report on durable goods each month is one of the most volatile of all economic reports. After all, the big-ticket items include consumer durable goods and capital spending...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau this morning released data on new single-family home sales for July. Sales dropped 13.4% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 394,000, from a...
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ThinkstockNew U.S. car sales for the month of August, including fleet sales, are expected to reach 1.46 million units, remaining on track to reach total 2013 sales of 15.6 million units, according to...
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