Consumer Confidence At a Glance
Consumer Confidence Index: 57.2
Monthly Change: Down 5.6
Present Situation Index: 74.4
Monthly Change: Down 7.5
Expectations Index: 45.7
Monthly Change: Down 4.3
1985=100
Technorati Tags: consumer confidence, consumer confidence index
New Home Sales At a Glance
Annual Sales Rate (Seasonally Adjusted): 526,000
Monthly Change: Up 3.3%%
Annual Change: Down 42.0%
Median Sales Price: $246,100
Monthly change: Up $18,500
Unsold Inventory: 10.6 Months
Technorati Tags: home sales, new residential sales
Existing Home Sales At a Glance
Total Existing Home Sales Annual Rate: 4.89 million
Monthly Change: Down 1%
Year-to-year Change: Down 17.5%
Median home price: $202,300
Monthly Change: Up $1,600
Technorati Tags: existing home sales, home sales, housing market
Money Supply At a Glance
M1 Seasonally Adjusted Prior Month: $1367.6 billion
M1 4-Week Average: $1370.2 billion
M1 Annual Change (Unadjusted): Down $7.9 billion
M2 Seasonally Adjusted Prior Month: $7677.0 billion
M2 4-Week Average: $7669.7 billion
M2 Annual Change (Unadjusted): Up $471.8 billion
Technorati Tags: money supply, Federal Reserve, M1, M2
Jobless Claims At a Glance
Initial Claims: 365,000
Change from Last Week: Down 9,000
4-Week Moving Average: 372,250
Insured Unemployment Rate: 2.3%
Insured Unemployment: 3,073,000
All numbers seasonally adjusted.
Technorati Tags: jobless, unemployment, claims
Federal Open Market Committee Minutes - Key Quotes
Participants stressed the difficulty of gauging the appropriate stance of policy in current circumstances…Several participants expressed the view that the easing in monetary policy since last fall had not as yet led to a loosening in overall financial conditions, but rather had prevented financial conditions from tightening as [...]
