Global Macro Perspectives
U.S. housing starts were reported at 593.000 vs. revised 659.00 April reading. The consensus was at 648.000. Building permits in the same period fell 5.9% to 574.000. Bad report. Chart 1. U.S. Housing Starts Chart 2. U.S. Building Permits
U.S. housing starts were reported at 672.000 vs. 626.00 March reading. The consensus was at 650.000. Building permits in the same period fell 11.5% to 606.000. Chart 1. U.S. Housing Starts Chart 2. U.S. Building Permits
U.S. housing starts were reported at 626.000 vs. revised 616.00 March reading (revised from 575.000???). The consensus was at 610.000. Building permits in the same period rose 7.5% to 685.000. You can look the data from two standpoints: 1. The housing industry is recovering; or 2. They are adding additional supply to already oversupplied market. […]
U.S. housing starts came out at 575.000 vs. 565.000 consensus and 591.000 in January. Building permits in the same period fell 1.6% to 612.000. The weather certainly played a role here, but nevertheless the data coming out on housing isn’t good. Chart 1. U.S. Housing Starts Chart 2. U.S. Building Permits
Asia closed negative today, Europe is trading also negative -0.5% on average. After I started began to doubt my calls on TARP repayments as a potential correction catalyst the Citigroup equity offering has turn out to be full blown fiasco. The offering was priced yesterday at $3.15 per share, a 20+ percent lower the share […]
Existing Home Sales came at level of 6.2 million vs. 5.7 million consensus and 5.6 million level the month before. Positive figure courtesy of late extension of first time home buyer tax credit (closing required by November) and record low mortgage rates. Chart 1. Existing Home Sales Looking back to the last’s week housing data […]
Housing starts rose 0.5% in September to 590k units vs. 615k consensus representing 2.8% growth. August data was revised down from 598k units reported last month to 587k units. If we take this into account the consensus was projecting 4.7 increase; and the reported figure was 0.5%. Bloomberg link: Housing Starts in U.S. Increased Less Than Forecast.