
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
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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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