Monthly Archives: March 2014

it’s been a fairly busy week for economic news releases, with the two important reports, the 3rd and final estimate of 4th quarter GDP, and data on Personal Income and Spending for February, coming at the end of the week; … Continue reading →

January Case=Shiller A-L January Case=Shiller M-Z February unemployment rate by state from Bill McBride: 3rd revision to 4th quarter GDP: February PCE, DPI and savings rate:

 NOTE: sometime over the past week, the St Louis Fed, home to the FRED graphs, changed their graphs to an interactive format, which apparently necessitated eliminating some of the incompatible options which we’ve used in creating our graphs, and also … Continue reading →

existing home sales price range changes: annual change in CPI components over the past decade: CPI reset to 2000=100: CPI reset to 2001=100: February industrial production components:

it’s been a comparatively slow week for important economic releases, although we did see a couple of reports that are watched for inventory build-up, which is a major component of GDP but which nonetheless is a concern because inventories are … Continue reading →

retail sales table: retail pie: January inventory to sales ratio:

it’s been a very busy news week, with several important economic releases…in addition to the employment reports for February released on Friday, both the International Trade Report for January (51pp pdf) and the Fed’s G-19 on Consumer Credit for January … Continue reading →

delinquent and in foreclosure by month: foreclosure starts as a percentage of seriously delinquent: serious deterioration to foreclosure starts ratio: foreclosure starts by delinquency bucket: foreclosure sales as a percentage of inventory: new & repeat foreclosure starts:   non-current by … Continue reading →

the key release of this past week was the first revision to the advance estimate of 4th quarter GDP from the BEA, which showed that the economy grew at a 2.4% annual rate over the last  3 months of last … Continue reading →

December Case Shiller annual change from Robert Oak at the economic populist: