The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending March 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 462,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 468,000. The 4-week moving average was 475,500, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week’s revised average of 470,500
From HotelNewsNow.com: San Francisco leads weekly results Overall the U.S. industry’s occupancy ended the week with a 2.5-percent increase to 55.3 percent, ADR dropped 4.7 percent to US$96.06, and RevPAR fell 2.3 percent to US$53.15. The following graph shows the occupancy rate by week since 2000, and the rolling 52 week average occupancy rate.
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Down; Severe Weather Impacting Market The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in January, fell 7.6 percent to 90.4 from an upwardly revised 97.8 in December … “We will see weak near-term sales followed by a likely surge of existing-home sales in April, May and June,” [Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist] said. “The real question is what happens in the second half of the year.” The Pending Home Sales Index isn’t perfect, but this does generally lead existing home sales by about 45 days
The weekly jobless claims from the U.S.
The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending Feb. 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 469,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 498,000. The 4-week moving average was 470,750, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 474,250.
First, the following graph is from the Atlanta Fed Financial Highlights , and shows the weekly Fed MBS purchases since January 2009: Click on graph for larger image. From the Atlanta Fed: The Fed purchased a net total of $11 billion of agency-backed MBS through the week of February 17. This purchase brings its total purchases up to $1.199 trillion, and by the end of the first quarter of 2010 the Fed will have purchased $1.25 trillion (thus, it is 96% complete).
The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending Feb.
Floyd Norris writes at the NY Times: Horrid Job Number Coming It snowed this month in much of the United States. … Both the household survey (which produces the unemployment rate) and the employer survey (which produces the job count) ask about workers in the week during which the 12th of the month fell [the week of the blizzards]
The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending Feb. 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 473,000, an increase of 31,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 442,000. The 4-week moving average was 467,500, a decrease of 1,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 469,000
