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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey - February 20, 2008

21-Feb-08

Mortgage Applications Survey At a Glance
Adjusted seasonally

Market Composite Index: 822.8
Change: Down 22.6%
Purchase Index: 357.6
Change: Down 11.5%
Refinance Index: 3533.8
Change: Down 27.9%
4-Week Moving Average: Down 3.8%
30-year Fixed Rate: 6.09% with 1.10 points

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Federal Open Market Committee minutes - January 29-30, 2008

21-Feb-08

Federal Open Market Committee Minutes - Key Quote

The economic projections provided by the members of the Board of Governors and the presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks help shape monetary policy and can aid public understanding of the basis for policy actions. Considerable uncertainty attends these projections, however. The economic and statistical models and relationships [...]

Consumer Price Index (CPI) - January 2008

21-Feb-08

CPI At a Glance

CPI-U: 211.080
Monthly Change: Up 0.5%
Year-to-year Change: Up 4.3%
Core CPI-U: Up 0.3% [Seasonally adjusted]
CPI-W: 206.744
Monthly Change: Up 0.5%
Year-to-year Change: Up 4.6%
Chained CPI-U: 121.895
Monthly Change: Up 0.5%%
Year-to-Year Change: Up 3.9%

Important notes: Numbers are not seasonally adjusted unless noted; base year=100 for CPI-U and CPI-W is 1982-1984; base year for C-CPI-U is 1999.
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Housing Starts - January 2008

21-Feb-08

Housing Starts At a Glance
Seasonally Adjusted

Housing Starts: 1,012,000
Monthly Change: Up 0.8%
Year-to-year Change: Down 27.9%
1-Family Monthly Change: Down 5.2%
Housing Completions: 1,351,000
Monthly Change: Up 1.8%
Year-to-year Change: Down 26.2%
1-Family Monthly Change: Down 1%
Building Permits: 1,048,000
Monthly Change: Down 3%
Year-to-year Change: Down 33.1%
1-Family Monthly Change: Down 4.1%

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Housing Market Index - February 2008

19-Feb-08

Housing Market Index At a Glance

Current Month Index: 20
Monthly Change: Up 1
Current 1-Family Sales Index: 20
Monthly Change: Up 1
Sales Expectations Index: 27
Monthly Change: Down 1
Buyer Traffic Index: 19
Monthly Change: Up 5
South Regional: 24
West Regional: 15
Northeast Regional: 24
Midwest Regional: 16

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Treasury International Capital - December 2007

17-Feb-08

International Capital Flows At a Glance

Foreign purchases of Long Term US Securities: $69.1 billion
Official purchases: $35.8 billion
Private purchases: $33.3 billion
US residents purchase of foreign long term securities: $12.6 billion
Monthly Net TIC flows: $60.4 billion

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