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Residential Supply
May 5, 2023
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New single-family home sales are bouncing back with supply tight in the existing-home market. Active listings in March stood at roughly half of where they were four years earlier, in part because higher mortgage rates made many homeowners reluctant to sell and give up their current low rates.

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Fed Hike
May 4, 2023
Economy

The Fed’s rate hike was its 10th since March of 2022. Seeking to rein in high inflation, the central bank has increased the key federal-funds rate from next to nothing to between 5% and 5.25% over that span.

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Repo
May 3, 2023
Economy

Harley-Davidson last week said its credit loss rate rose to 3.2% in the first quarter, up from its typical rate of about 2%.

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Active ETFs
May 2, 2023
Economy

Active funds still make up a sliver of the roughly $7 trillion ETF market—less than 6% of total assets—but have attracted about 30% of the total flows to ETFs so far this year. That follows a banner year for active ETFs in 2022, when they gathered roughly 14% of total flows. Analysts say the outsize flows reflect greater interest in active management amid turbulent markets as well as the ease with which they allow investors to more easily trade specific strategies.

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FRC JPM
May 1, 2023
Economy

First Republic Bank was seized and sold to JPMorgan. The deal will see JPMorgan take on all of First Republic’s $103.9 billion in deposits and buy most of its $229.1 billion in assets.

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San Fran Vacancy
April 27, 2023
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Nearly 30% of San Francisco’s office space is vacant, which is more than seven times the rate before the pandemic hit, and the biggest increase of any major U.S. city.

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Small Cities
April 26, 2023
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Small cities in the Midwest topped The Emerging Housing Markets Index in the first quarter, a sign that buyer demand for affordable homes remains robust even as activity in the broader market slows.

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US Home Sales
April 25, 2023
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U.S. existing-home sales decreased 2.4% in March from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.44 million. March sales fell 22% from a year earlier and marked the 13th time in the previous 14 months that sales have slowed.

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Office Buildings
April 24, 2023
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The U.S. office vacancy rate reached a milestone in the first quarter when it rose to 12.9%, exceeding the peak vacancy rate during the 2008 financial crisis, with office-building prices down 25% since early 2022.

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Bankruptcies
April 21, 2023
Economy

In March, 42,368 bankruptcy petitions were filed nationwide, up 33% from 31,898 in February and up 17% from a year ago. Commercial filings jumped 24% to 2,305 in March compared with a year ago, and 548 of those were Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, up 79% from a year ago.

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