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Consumers Are Downbeat on Economy
http://online.wsj.com/ article/ SB121094058802498537.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_bu...
Consumer sentiment about the economy hit a 28-year low, while housing starts jumped 8.2% in April on gains in the multifamily category.
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The Mortgage Market Brain Dump
http://www.themortgagereports.com/2008/05/the-first-ever.htm...There's a scene in Awakenings when Dr. Sayer theorizes about Leonard's condition. He wonders if the trance-like paralysis is the result of an extreme tremor: If compulsions in the patient were somehow accelerated --- the hands, the shaking, the tics,
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Economists React: Lets Not Kid Ourselves on Housing
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/05/16/economists-react-l...Economists and others weigh in on the unexpected 8.2% increase in housing starts last month. The headline increase in starts means nothing; it is all due to a rebound in the hugely volatile, but essentially trendless, multi-family sector, where starts
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Housing Starts Plunge 30.6%
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/05/fantastic-hou...Does this look like a bottom to you ? chart courtesy of Barron's Econoday > The Commerce Department released the Housing Starts data. It was not pretty Construction of single-family houses in April dropped to the lowest level in 17 years.
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Housing Starts Plunge Up and Down. More at 11.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/05/16/housing_starts....I love when you get two contradictory headlines about the same piece of news. Case in point, here is my friend Barry on the latest housing starts data, following by a WSJ headline on the same nugget: With housing starts apparently plunging up and down
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Friday Morning Linkage
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/05/friday_morning_66.php[Del Rey Shores development, stopped due to dirt removal issues] ÷ CEQA violation stops 544-unit Shores project in MDR [Argonaut] ÷ Angelenos take to bikes to avoid gas prices [Daily News] ÷ Future of Cerritos includes hotel, Coach store and F&E
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[In The Media] Fox Business C-Suite Interview for 5-16-08
http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=1579Well this morning, I got up at 4:15am to do a live C-Suite interview on Fox Business News at 6:45am. Always fun and I enjoyed meeting Jenna Lee in person after having known her only via telephone when she was a reporter. I must have done ok since they
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Premarket: Cuckoo for Hoku
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/05/16/premarket-cuckoo-...Hoku Scientific Inc. shares rallied in premarket action, gaining 16% after the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission approved a contract for Hawaiian Electric Company to purchase power from a photovoltaic power system which will be installed by Hokus solar
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Wall Street Rumors, May 16, 2008
http://www.investortrip.com/wall-street-rumors-may-16-2008/Daily rumors, covering the global markets. Subscribe to the update feed here. Housing Starts Post Surprise Rise WASHINGTON Home construction turned up unexpectedly in April and showed surprising vigor, making the biggest increase in two years. However,
