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Los Angeles Port Traffic: November 2015
Strong cargo volume continued at the Port of Long Beach in November with 6.6 per cent growth in container trade over the same month last year. It was the fifth straight month of increases and enough cargo to rack up the second-busiest November in the Port’s 104-year history. Upcoming post-holiday sales planned by retailers across…
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Residential Price Index, US Houses: October 2015
In addition to Case-Shiller, and CoreLogic, there is also FNC, Zillow, and sev- eral other house price indexes. FNC have released their October 2015 index data, reporting that their Residen- tial Price IndexTM (RPI) indicates that US residential property values decreased 0.1 per cent from September to October (Composite 100 index, not seasonally ad- justed).…
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US Housing Starts: November 2015
New-home construction in the US rebounded in November, led by gains in single-family dwellings that signal the residential real estate industry will continue to support growth in the world’s largest economy. Housing starts climbed 10.5 per cent to a 1.17 million annualized rate, from a 1.06 million pace in October, figures from the Commerce Department…
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US Economy and Economic Indicators
This week new research was released on the current makeup of the US middle class, the continuing commodities price slump, other — more general — US economic indicators provide a somewhat less murky, if still muted, projection of the health of the US economy over the next year or two. Said Bill McBride in his…
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US Economy and Economic Indicators
This week new research was released on the current makeup of the US middle class, the continuing commodities price slump, other — more general — US eco- nomic indicators provide a somewhat less murky, if still muted, projection of the health of the US economy over the next year or two. Pew Research Center Analysis…
