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US Industrial Production: March 2015
Industrial production in the US decreased 0.3 per cent in April for its fifth consecutive monthly loss. Manufacturing output was unchanged in April after recording an upwardly revised gain of 0.3 per cent in March. In April, the index for mining moved down 0.8 per cent, its fourth consecutive monthly decrease; a sharp fall in…
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Canada Manufacturing Sales: March 2015
Manufacturing sales in Canada rose 2.9 per cent to $51 billion in March, the second increase in six months. An increase in the production of aerospace products and parts coupled with gains in the motor vehicle industry generated higher sales for the month. Partially offsetting the advance was a drop in sales of fabricated metal…
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US All-Cash Home Sales: February 2015
According to CoreLogic Wednesday, cash sales of US homes made up 37.9 per cent of total sales nationally in February 2015, down from 40.6 per cent in February 2014. February is the 26th consecutive month of declines. Home Sales, US Month over month, the share of all-cash home sales fell by 1 percentage point, said…
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Japan Housing Starts: March 2015
Japan’s housing starts in March were 69,887 units (up 0.7 per cent from the same month in the previous year), surpassing the previous year’s results for the first time in 13 months. The seasonally-adjusted annual rate was 920,000 units (up 1.7 per cent from the previous month), said Japan Lumber Journal and Japan Lumber Reports,…
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Housing Starts, Canada: April 2015
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp reported May 8 that the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts fell to 181,814 in April from a downwardly revised 189,546 units in March. Canada Housing Starts In Canada, condo starts slipped 14.2 per cent to 107,216, said the CMHC. Single-detached starts rose 11.4 per cent to 58,229.…
