Mon, Jul 28 2008, 7:00 AM
In a rare weekend meeting, the U.S. Senate passed the housing
bill by 72-13 votes. The legislation now awaits the signature of
U.S. President Geor...
Mon, Jul 28 2008, 7:00 AM
The U.S. dollar was mixed on a quiet day on Monday,
making gains solely against the underperforming Canadian dollar and
British pound.
"The...
Mon, Jul 28 2008, 7:00 AM
Credit risk remains elevated and appetite for risk remains subdued,
though the systemic risk to financial markets is not as elevated as it
was in th...
Fri, Jul 25 2008, 7:00 AM
In May, the New Home Sales Index fell 2.5% to its
second-lowest pace in 17 years, and economists expect another decline in
the June report to be r...
Fri, Jul 25 2008, 7:00 AM
New home sales fell for the seventh of the past eight
months in June, falling by 0.6% to an annual pace of 530k sales. This
rate is much higher tha...
Fri, Jul 25 2008, 7:00 AM
The final consumer sentiment survey from Reuters and
the University of Michigan received a large upward revision from
preliminary estimates in Jul...
Fri, Jul 25 2008, 7:00 AM
Friday's highlights include the release of U.S. durable goods and
new home sales for June along with a final look at
consumer sentiment for the Un...
Fri, Jul 25 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. new home sales fell marginally in June but the pace was much
higher than expected due to +50k of revisions over the past three months.
Economi...
Fri, Jul 25 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. home foreclosures soared by 121% in second-
quarter year-over-year results, according to a report issued by
RealtyTrac.
There were 739,714 ...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
Initial claims for unemployment benefits in the
United States soared to 406k in the week ending July 19, the highest
level since March, according ...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
The U.S National homeowner housing vacancy rate
slipped to 2.8% in the second quarter, a 0.1% decline from the previous
quarter's 2.9% rate, accor...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
The Miami Herald's investigative team reported on Sunday that the
state has approved over 10,000 mortgage broker licenses for
convicted felons sin...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. jobless claims and existing home
sales will dominate the scheduled events of the day, along with
testimony from New York Fed President Timo...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. existing home sales fell 2.6% to 4.86 million
units in June following May's unrevised sales figure of 4.99 million.
This is the fourth month ...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
"The U.S. housing market continues to be very weak, and with the
inventory of unsold homes continuing to rise we are
unlikely to see any meaningfu...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, SEC
Chairman Christopher Cox said he needs more
authority to have mandatory supervisio...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he is
suing UBS AG for misleading investors into buying auction-rate securities
just five months befor...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a housing
bill including provisions for the creation of a new GSE
regulator and a liquidity backsto...
Thu, Jul 24 2008, 7:00 AM
"The U.S. and global financial systems are going through a very
challenging period of adjustment. The critical imperative today is to
help facilitat...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Economists largely agree that the Beige Book document
to be released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve won't receive extended
attention from market...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Although he is not pleased with some parts of the
housing bill , U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said
it was easy for him to recommend to P...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking in a Bloomberg Television interview, noted
hawk Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Chuck
Plosser said the Fed may have to hike rate...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Canadian CPI tops the economic news of the day as markets receive the
Fed's Beige Book and the Department of Energy's weekly oil inventories.
In the...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Rates for both short- and long-term mortgages tumbled last week
according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
The Mortgage Bankers As...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Economic conditions across the U.S. "slowed somewhat," according to
the Fed's Beige Book on Wednesday. Five of the 12
districts were said to have ...
Wed, Jul 23 2008, 7:00 AM
Weekly mortgage applications in the United States
declined in the week ending July 18, according to data released from the
Mortgage Bankers' Assoc...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
The Federal Reserve Board Discount rate meeting
minutes from May 19 and June 23 show that ten out of twelve
reserve banks voted to leave the disco...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. house prices fell 0.3% month-over-month in May
following April's 0.8% pullback, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight (OFHEO) re...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
Less than a week after Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Christopher Cox invoked the Commission's emergency powers to regulate
short sell...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
Inflation in the U.S. is "too high" and inconsistent with the goals of
the Federal Reserve, whose accommodative policy must be
reversed , said Char...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
Canadian retail sales and employment insurance data tops the economic
news for the day as U.S. markets will receive the OFHEO's housing
market inde...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking at the New York Public Library, U.S. Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are vital
to the U.S. financial sys...
Mon, Jul 21 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking in Boston at the Managed Funds Association Seminar on Sound
Practices for Hedge Fund Managers, Acting Undersecretary for Domestic
Finance A...
Mon, Jul 21 2008, 7:00 AM
Current Rate: 2.00% Next Rate Decision: Aug. 5 Market
Expectations: The OIS implied rate suggests markets are 16% priced in for
a 25bp hike at t...
Mon, Jul 21 2008, 7:00 AM
According to economists and strategists, the U.S. housing
market is going to be the top news in the U.S. Along with new
and existing home sales, t...
Mon, Jul 21 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking in multiple interviews over the weekend, U.S. Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson continued to push for his plan to provide an
unlimited line...
Mon, Jul 21 2008, 7:00 AM
According to Scotiabank's Global Outlook released
Monday, sharp monetary policy easing, a generous fiscal stimulus package
and massive liquidity i...
Mon, Jul 21 2008, 7:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday morning that the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ,) rather than being
part of the solution to t...
Fri, Jul 18 2008, 7:00 AM
Two Wall Street giants and their investors are betting that one of the
Streets most baffling rules of thumb will prevail as the stock market
prepare...
Fri, Jul 18 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Minneapolis Federal
Reserve President Gary Stern (voter) said that the Federal Reserve
can't wai...
Thu, Jul 17 2008, 7:00 AM
International securities transactions and the Bank of Canada's
monetary policy report highlight today's Canadian economic releases as
U.S. markets r...
Thu, Jul 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Delivering comments at the FDIC's Minority Depository Institutions
National Conference in Chicago, Fed Governor Randall Kroszner said the
Fed's new...
Thu, Jul 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Initial claims for unemployment benefits in the
United States rose much less than expected to 366k in the week ending
July 12, following a slightly...
Thu, Jul 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Due to a change in the housing code of New York City ,
U.S. housing starts came in above expectations at 1066k in June, a month-
over-month rise of ...
Wed, Jul 16 2008, 7:00 AM
Fed fund futures showed a slightly heightened risk of a rate
hike in 2008 by the Federal Reserve, following a higher-than-
expected CPI print for J...
Wed, Jul 16 2008, 7:00 AM
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee's
(FOMC) June 24-25 meeting show that FOMC Board Members agreed upside
risks to inflation had inc...
Wed, Jul 16 2008, 7:00 AM
According to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week
ending July 10, there was little change in either short or long term
mortgag...
Wed, Jul 16 2008, 7:00 AM
A report from Wells Fargo and the National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) suggests that homebuilders were even more
pessimistic in July as th...
Wed, Jul 16 2008, 7:00 AM
Following a lower-than-expected level of housing starts and
permits in the May report, plus a major downward revision in the
month before, economi...
Wed, Jul 16 2008, 7:00 AM
The seasonally adjusted U.S. Consumer Price Index
rose more than expected on both fronts, as the core rate ticked up 0.3%
(0.323%) in June, contri...
