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  • Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey – April 2015

    The Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s April Manufacturing Survey’s general business conditions index, released Thursday, turned slightly negative for the first time since December, falling 8 points to -1.2 in a sign that the growth in manufacturing had paused.

  • US Producer Price Indexes for Building Materials – March 2015

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday the Producer Price Indexes for March, reporting that inflation in prices received by producers increased 0.2 per cent in March after a string of monthly declines. The overall increase was led by increasing prices for energy, mainly gasoline. Prices for services rose 0.1 per cent. As for building…

  • National Multi Housing Council Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions – April 2015

    All four indexes landed above the breakeven level of 50 in the April National Multifamily Housing Council Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions. The Market Tightness Index increased by 7 points from last quarter (and by 2 points from a year earlier) to 58. Thirty-one per cent of respondents reported tighter conditions than three months…

  • US Housing Starts: March 2015

    Groundbreaking on new US homes increased 2 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 926,000 units in March, the Commerce Department said  Thursday. That left the bulk of February’s decline, which had been blamed on bad weather, intact. New single-family homes building rose 4.4 per cent. Groundbreaking for the multi-family homes segment fell…

  • Canada Monthly Survey of Manufacturing

    Manufacturing sales declined 1.7 per cent to $50 billion in February, the fourth decrease in five months, said Statistics Canada Wednesday. The drop reflected lower sales of motor vehicles and reduced production of aerospace products and parts. Monthly manufacturing sales have fallen 6.8 per cent since their most recent high of $53.7 billion in July…