Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'Case-Shiller index'
US demand bouncing along the bottom
The good news from the latest reports on US house prices and auto sales was simple - things have stopped getting worse. US house prices saw "some stabilisation in some regions" according to the S&P/Case Shiller Index for April. Whilst...
US house prices, building permits, see record declines
US house prices are still seeing "record declines" according to today's Case-Shiller home price index. The national price was down 19.1% from March 2008, and 32% from the Q2 2006 peak. As before, the over-built Sunbelt led the way, with...
US house prices below 1979 levels in real terms
Source: Chartoftheday.comUS house prices remain on a "downward path" according to today's latest S&P Case-Shiller house price index. S&P report that in terms of nominal prices (including inflation), "average home prices across the US are now at similar levels to...
US home sales keep falling
Kevin Swift at the American Chemistry Council issued a new 2009 Outlook this week. His analysis suggests that we will see a V-shaped recession, as the "massive stimulus being injected into the US and other world economies will foster demand...
US house prices continue to fall
Q4 was never going to be good for US housing markets. The financial crash of September/October not only terrified potential buyers, but also meant they found it increasingly difficult to secure loans. As the chart shows, this lethal combination hit...
US housing weakens again
US housing continues to weaken as the financial crisis of the past 2 months takes its toll of prospective homebuyers. Yesterday's Case-Shiller index of house prices showed a "broad-based decline" in September, posting record annual declines of 17%. Similarly, the...
US house prices fall again
US house prices continued their downward path in August, and "every region reported negative annual returns", according to today's new Case-Shiller index. Nationally, average prices were down 17%, with Phoenix and Las Vegas down over 30% since last August. The...
US house prices keep on falling
US house prices, according to today's S&P/Case-Shiller Index, are still falling quite sharply. As shown in the chart, they are now down 17% versus last year. The key influence, according to S&P, is that 'the markets that were the...
US housing 'terrible'
When a leading banker says things look 'terrible', one know they must be really bad. Jamie Dimon is CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the only major US bank not to take write-downs on its housing loans to date. He described...
US house prices carry on falling
Every month, it seems, the US housing market gets worse. Spring should have provided some respite, as it is the peak time for sales. But instead, as the chart shows, the benchmark S&P/Case-Shiller house price index fell again to...
$216.9bn and still rising
After a while, large numbers lose their power to shock. So Bloomberg and the FT have performed a service this week by reminding us of the scale of losses in the financial sector. They calculate that so far, US...
US housing weakens, UK follows
US housing markets are getting worse. Today’s S&P/Case-Schiller index showed prices declined 8.9% in December. Moody’s said that 10% of homeowners (8.8 million people) had negative equity in their homes. And unsurprisingly, given this background, bank repossessions rose 90% versus...
One week later
A week ago, I wrote that it would be important to see if ‘the US Federal Reserve can pull a rabbit out of its hat’ at its meeting later that day. The dust has now settled on its 0.5% Fed...
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