Construction Spending At a Glance
Total Construction Spending: $1,053.7 billion
Monthly Change: Down 1.4%
Year-to-year Change: Down 3.6%
Private Residential Spending: $319.2 billion
Monthly Change: Down 3.2%
Private Non-residential: $417.9 billion
Monthly Change: Down 0.4%
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New Home Sales At a Glance
Annual Sales Rate (Seasonally Adjusted): 331,000
Monthly Change: Down 14.7%
Annual Change: Down 44.8%
Median Sales Price: $206,500
Monthly change: Down $13,900
Unsold Inventory: 12.9 months
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Mortgage Applications Survey At a Glance
Adjusted seasonally
Market Composite Index: 732.1
Change: Down 38.8%
Purchase Index: 294.3
Change: Down 2.9%
Refinance Index: 3373.9
Change: Down 48%
4-Week Moving Average: Down 10.5%
30-year Fixed Rate: 5.22% with 1.05 points
Technorati Tags: mortgages, mortgage, interest, rates, applications, housing market
Jobless Claims At a Glance
Initial Claims: 588,000
Change from Last Week: Up 3,000
4-Week Moving Average: 542,500
Insured Unemployment Rate: 3.6%
Insured Unemployment: 4,776,000
All numbers seasonally adjusted.
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) At a Glance
Real Annual Growth Rate: Down 3.8%
Previous Quarter Rate: Down 0.5%
Current Dollar GDP Growth: Down 4.1%
GDP Implicit Price Deflator: -0.3%
Gross Domestic Purchases Deflator: -4.8%
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Federal Funds Rate: 0 to 0.25%
Discount Rate: 0.5%
Technorati Tags: federal funds, interest, rate, Federal Reserve, Federal Open Market Committee
