Prices, Output, Housing Take Off In Oct. As Economy Snaps Out Of A Summer Lull (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Inflation, factory output and the housing market all heated up in October as the U.S. economy recovered from summer hurricanes.
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Investor's Business Daily - Government efforts to cool soaring Chinese stocks sparked heavy selling in Shanghai on Wednesday. But unlike three months ago, global markets took the drop in stride.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Oct. crude shot up $1.68 to $79.91, an all-time high, after the gov&#39;t reported steeper-than-expected drawdowns in supplies. Those stocks fell 7.1 mil barrels last week, far more than the 2.4 mil barrels forecast. Heating oil surged 3.64 cents to $2.2191 a gallon, also a record. Analysts say heating oil supplies aren&#39;t as high as they should be this near to the winter season.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investor confidence returned to real estate stocks after the Fed&#39;s half-point 18ate cut. The S&amp;P REIT Composite Index shot up 6% the next day.
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Investor's Business Daily - Q2 prices rose 3.2% vs. a year ago, the slowest rise in a decade, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said. Price gains could turn into declines, as they have in other measures, and are taking a toll on broader economic growth. The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index on Tue. showed Q2 home prices down 3.2% vs. a year earlier. OFHEO prices don&#39;t include homes with jumbo or subprime loans, two of the more vulnerable segments of the mortgage market. Weakness is expected to continue into &#39;08.
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Subprime shocks, soaring oil and wild market swings. What's an investor to do? Top advisers offer guidance.
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. home prices declined 1.4% in Q1 compared with Q1 &#39;06, the first year-over-year drop since 1991, according to the S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index. It could take years for housing prices to rebound, said David Seiders, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders. He predicted that new-home construction won&#39;t return to last year&#39;s level for at least 4 years.
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Wall Street is still on course to end  2006 in the plus column, but it's too early to pop the  champagne corks. Investors will comb through next week's jobs  report for November and other data to see if the U.S. economy  and corporate profits will be able to withstand the fallout  from a slowdown in housing and the dollar's slide.
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Investor's Business Daily - Insult is about to follow injury. It's bad enough that you've had to put up with a so-so year of market performance. Now you have to brace for an expected rise in stock fund capital gain distributions.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite a sagging stock market, investors put &#36;9.46 billion into stock mutual funds in July.
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The array of US economic reports for October released Nov. 17 sent a shot across the bow of the Federal Reserve. Stronger-than-expected numbers on consumer-level inflation, the housing sector, and manufacturing will leave Alan Greenspan &amp; Co.
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Today, Wednesday and Thursday are shaping up to be pivotal days for financial markets' recovery from disarray and for the direction of the U.S. economy.
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Wall Street is still on course to end 2006 in the plus column, but it's too early to pop the champagne corks. Investors will comb through next week's jobs report for November and other data to see if the U.S. economy and corporate profits will be able to withstand the fallout from a slowdown in housing and the dollar's slide.
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Plus: Adobe earnings, outlook top Street...TiVo swings to a loss...HP profit gains on cost cuts, cheaper components.
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Investor's Business Daily - California, Florida and Ohio led the 176,137 total U.S. filings, RealtyTrac said. The total was nearly double May &#39;06 and 19% higher than April. More homeowners are falling behind on payments. Higher foreclosure activity also likely will mean lower home prices. Median prices fell 1.8% in Q1, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Investor's Business Daily - In recent weeks, even when the rest of the market has lagged, REIT funds generally have outperformed.
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Investor's Business Daily - Even before Tuesday's 0.75% slash in the federal funds rate by the Federal Reserve, mortgage rates had been sliding. Last week's cut pulled down home loan rates more.