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With that framework in mind, yesterday I wrote about how, following interest rates, housing is range-bound.
Still nerdy after all these years
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With that framework in mind, yesterday I wrote about how, following interest rates, housing is range-bound.
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As per my usual caveat, while new home sales are the most leading of the housing construction metrics, they are noisy and heavily revised.
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While overall household wealth in America fell from the end of 2021 through the first three quarters of 2022, the bottom 20% of households by income saw their wealth grow.“In total, household wealth for the lowest-income quintile rose by nearly 10% while wealth in all other income quintiles fell, according to figures from the Federal Reserve and nonpartisan data center USAFacts.
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I neglected to pt this up yesterday, so here it is now. My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha.
There continues to be a fair amount of churn and noise in the short leading and coincident time range. Nevertheless, the underlying theme is one of positivity. Aside from the swoon in the stock market this past week, the other big move was in industrial commodities, which spike higher late in the week. This is the first time they have been positive YoY in well over a year.
Typically that is because of higher demand straining against current supply, which means an expanding economy (with inflationary pressure building up).
As usual, clicking over and reading will bring you up to the virtual moment on all of these trends, and reward me with a little pocket change for organizing the data and bringing it to you.
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The bifurcation of the new vs. existing home markets continued in March, per the report on existing home sales and prices yesterday. Remember that, unlike existing homeowners, house builders can vary square footage, amenities, lot sizes, and offer price and/or mortgage incentives to counteract the effect of interest rate hikes.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, existing home sales declined from 438,000 to 419,000 in March. But this is well within the seasonally adjusted range of the past 16 months (gray, right scale in the graph below){also, note I am using Trading Economics graphs due to restrictions put on FRED by the Realtors; also note difference in scales):