everydayfinance.blogspot.com - 7/5/2009
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I had posted recently on an upcoming set of ETFs that would allow you to trade on the Case- Shiller home price index , which is meant to mimic the largest metropolitan areas in the US and be "generally representative" of the US housing market. Even though you hear the proverbial expression ...
Case-Shiller House Prices and Stress Test Scenarios
calculatedriskblog.com 6/30/2009 — Please see: Case-Shiller: Prices Fall in April for the seasonally adjusted composite indices. NOTE: I'm now using the Seasonally Adjusted (SA) composite 10 series. This graph compares the Case-Shiller Composite 10 SA index with the Stress Test scenarios from the Treasury (stress test data is ...
Would You Buy This Stock?
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 6/30/2009 — Would you buy a stock whose chart looks like the one below? It had a nice run but has pulled back quite a bit over the last couple of years. The chart above is the S&P;/Case-Shiller 10-City Composite Median Home Price index. MacroShares has been ...
Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall in April
calculatedriskblog.com 6/30/2009 — S&P;/Case-Shiller released their monthly Home Price Indices for April this morning. This monthly data includes prices for 20 individual cities, and two composite indices (10 cities and 20 cities). Note: This is not the quarterly national index. ...
Rosenberg on the CS-HPI "green shoots" —
The Mess That Greenspan Made
David Rosenberg at Gluskin-Sheff comments on Tuesday's cheery 0.6 percent monthly decline in the 20-city Case-Shiller Home Price Index (CS-HPI). Even Robert Shiller himself seemed excited about the fact that his own home price index was down just 0.6% in April, which admittedly compares ...
Home Price ETF Has Begun Trading —
Daily Markets
I had posted recently on an upcoming set of ETFs that would allow you to trade on the Case-Shiller home price index, which is meant to mimic the largest metropolitan areas in the US and be “generally representative” of the US housing market. Even though you hear the proverbial ...
Midday Maket Update: Real Estate Can’t Fuel Wall Street Rally —
ETF Trends
Despite a little bit of optimism coming out of the real estate sector, U.S. stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are still trading lower this morning after some gloomy news about how consumers are feeling these days.
The Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Index, which tracks home prices in ...
Home Prices are "Less Worse" —
EconomPic
Bloomberg reports: Home prices in 20 major U.S. metropolitan areas fell in April at a slower pace than forecast, a sign the plunge in real-estate values is abating. The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index decreased 18.1 percent from a year earlier following an 18.7 percent drop in March. ...
Case Shiller home price declines ease —
The Mess That Greenspan Made
The April report(.pdf) for the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes showed an easing of home price declines across the country after months of record declines. From March to April, the 20-city index fell just 0.6 percent, its "least bad" reading since last June and the annual rate of decline ...
Case/Shiller HPI —
The Big Picture
The April S&P/CaseShiller 20 city home price index fell 18.12% y/o/y but was better than the forecasted drop of a fall of 18.63%. It’s the smallest rate of decline since Oct ‘08. The fall off the high in July ‘06 is now 32.6% up from 32.2% in March. All 20 cities still ...
Coming Up Next Week —
Leonard The Monkey
Economic Data
Date Time (ET) Statistic For Actual Briefing Forecast Market Expects Prior Revised From
Jun 30 9:00 AM Consumer Confidence Jun - NA 55.1 54.9 -
Jun 30 9:00 AM S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index Apr - NA -18.75% -18.70% -
Jun 30 9:00 AM S&P/CaseShiller Home Price ...
The Week That Is To 6/29-7/3/2009 —
ECONOMIC REPORTS
MONDAY 6/29
None
TUESDAY 6/30
Consumer Confidence, S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, Chicago PMI
WEDNESDAY 7/1
ADP Employment Change, Construction Spending, ISM Index, Pending Home Sales, Crude Inventories, Auto Sales, Truck Sales
THURSDAY 7/2
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Trading Radar —
Minyanville
Monday June 29Economics Earnings Before: CMEDAfter: APOL HRBEvents 3-Month Bill Auction 1:00 PM ET6- Month Bill Auction 1:00 PM ETTuesday June 30Economics 09:00 Consumer Confidence 55.109:00 S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index -18.75%09:45 Chicago PMI 38.5Earnings Before: SCHNAfter: ZZ ...