Economy in Brief

• • • PREVIOUS >>> Sales of new single-family homes declined 4.4% (+14.3% y/y) during February to 765,000 (AR) from 800,000 in January............. The data in this report are available in Haver's USECON database. The consensus [...]

• Midwest economic activity is under pressure. • New orders, employment and prices are falling. • Expectations improve modestly. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported that its manufacturing business activity index declined [...]

• Initial claims for jobless insurance eased to 4.427 million last week. • Roughly 26 million individuals filed new claims during the last five weeks. • The insured jobless rate jumped to 11.0%. Initial jobless claims for unemployment [...]

• New single-family dropped 15.4% in March to 627,000 with meaningful downward revisions to January and February. • Despite the weakness in March and downward revisions, sales remain elevated relative to recent history. • [...]

The expectation for German confidence in May has taken the sharpest, deepest and broadest turn for the worse on record. The German April reading had taken 'a step down' and a significant one at that. But the full realization of what [...]

• Initial claims for jobless insurance eased to 4.427 million last week. • Roughly 26 million individuals filed new claims during the last five weeks. • The insured jobless rate jumped to 11.0%. Initial jobless claims for unemployment [...]

• Initial claims for jobless insurance eased to 4.427 million last week. • Roughly 26 million individuals filed new claims during the last five weeks. • The insured jobless rate jumped to 11.0%. Initial jobless claims for unemployment [...]

U.K. inflation has remained tame. In December there was a broad-based acceleration, but that has dissipated in February and March. In March and February, only about 21% of the major categories and the headline accelerated month-to- [...]