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US Construction Job Openings: September 2017
The open position rate (job openings as a per cent of total employment) for September softened to 2.8 per cent. On a smoothed twelve-month moving average basis, the open position rate for the construction sector held steady at 2.6 per cent, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…
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Canada Investment in New Housing Construction: June 2017
Investment in new housing construction in Canada rose 7.2 per cent from June 2016 to $4.7 billion in June, said Statistics Canada Tuesday. The increase was mostly attributable to higher investment in single family dwellings (+$257.9 million). All but one province saw an increase in new housing investment in June 2017. The largest increase was…
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US Home Builder Confidence, Home Equity: June & 1Q ‘17
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes in the US weakened slightly in June, down two points to a level of 67 from a downwardly revised May reading of 69 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released Thursday. Elsewhere, according to the Federal Reserve Board’s 1Q 2017…
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US Construction Job Openings: April 2017
The count of unfilled jobs in the construction sector climbed in April, rising to the highest level since September of last year. According to the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) and NAHB analysis released Monday, the number of open construction sector jobs stood at 203,000 in April. The cycle high was 238,000,…
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US New and Pending Home Sales: March 2017
US sales of new homes shot up in March to the fastest pace in 8 months, the Commerce Department said April 27. Meanwhile according to the National Association of Realtors Friday, US pending home sales in March 2017 maintained their recent high level, but momentum slackened slightly in most of the country as dearth supply…
