housing
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1/5/10 Midday Report: After 330 years, stock market proves Isaac Newton wrong: Gravity, schmavity. What goes down, must keep going up
The market continues it’s latest rally despite at best mixed news today. The biggest news is that pending home sales dropped more than Dolly Parton‘s boobs have in the past 5 years (and for the record, she now calls them “anklets”). The 16% drop was more than the expectation of a 2% drop after a…
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12/23/09 Midday Report: Consumer confidence rises enough to spur consumers to still not buy new houses
Another day and more mixed data so Bulls and Bears can both rejoice (Yay!!! Things are getting better and Yay!! Things are staying crappy. See we can all get along, you hear that Israel and Palestine and Tiger and Elin?). US consumer confidence rose to 72.5 according to the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, though it…
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12/22/09 Midday Report: GDP revised down, existing home sales up (await downward revision)
The market got mixed news today as sales of existing homes grew 7.4% to a two year high of a 6.5MM annual rate (and we thank our lucky pornstars for tax breaks, 4% lower median home prices, foreclosure sales of houses formerly owned by the unemployed, and Faye Reagan) while GDP was revised downward from…