HOMZ News and Press, Hoya Capital Housing From 03/28/24

2024-03-28 12:18:20 ET More related to mortgage rates: Waller Pushes On Open Door: Push For Patience Lifts The Dollar, Complicating Japanese Efforts Dollar's Recent Gains Pared But Firm Undertone Remains Intact Greenback Consolidates Last Week's Surge Bill Gr...

2024-03-28 07:20:00 ET Summary The size of the U.S. new home market as measured by its market capitalization shrank for the fifth month in a row. Political Calculations' initial estimate of the size of the new home market cap in February 2024 is $26.38 billion. This estimate is ne...

2024-03-26 07:05:00 ET Summary We consider gold bullion and the S&P500 Index to be effectively at opposite ends of an investment seesaw. In the middle of last year, we thought that the low-$3000s for the US$ gold price was a plausible target for the first half of this year. ...

2024-03-26 06:40:00 ET Summary Inflation, interest rates, and the markets. What corporate earnings tell us about the US economy. Investment opportunities beyond the tech space. ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Wh...

2024-03-25 12:30:00 ET Summary S&P 500 index reaches all-time high after Federal Reserve confirms interest rate cuts in 2024. That confirmation was like lighting off a rocket on Wall Street. The index rose nearly 0.9% after the Fed's "dot-plot" projection of future interest ra...

2024-03-25 08:20:00 ET Summary The dollar was up a little more than 1% last week and the short-term trend is on the cusp of changing. Stocks, large and small, had a good week as bonds rallied in the wake of the FOMC meeting. The rally last week was broad based with 10 of 11 ec...

2024-03-25 07:10:00 ET Summary Readers should reasonably expect solid Q1 ’24 earnings results from the S&P 500 when earnings begin around April 10th, with the financial sector. S&P 500 Q4 ’23 earnings were supposed to grow 4% as of early January ’24, a...

2024-03-24 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets advanced this week while benchmark interest rates retreated after the Fed reiterated its rate cut path in 2024, indicating that the committee was unfazed by firming inflation. Updated FOMC "dot plots" showed that officials maintai...

2024-03-22 08:35:00 ET Summary The seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales of existing single-family houses, condos, and co-ops rose 9.5% in February from January. Home sales remain at very low levels as the entire housing market has shrunk by 20% to 25% because homeowners with 3...

2024-03-18 22:50:00 ET Summary Three weeks ago, the year-to-date performance numbers for the S&P 500 Equal Weight index and the S&P 500 market cap-based index were 2.48% and 6.69%, respectively, a difference of 4.21%. As of last Friday (below), those numbers are 3.81% and ...