Tag Archives: interest rates

U.S. Wages At 9-Year High

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch.com Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 250,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, in manufacturing, in construction, … Continue reading →

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Strong Employment Report Due Tomorrow?

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Graph: Econoday ADP, or Automatic Data Processing, predicts 230,000 private payroll jobs could be created in September per tomorrow’s U.S. unemployment report. The reason is both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing (service) sectors reported strong hiring in their ISM … Continue reading →

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How Severe Will Be The Next Recession?

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Graph: TradingEconomics.com Why are we discussing the possibility of a severe recession when GDP growth is expected to average 3 percent this year, the highest annual average growth rate in several years? Because there is too much federal … Continue reading →

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Was There Ever A Soft Landing?

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: MarketWatch/R Shiller “The Federal Reserve has a chance to do something no U.S. central bank has done before, if it can slow the economy and raise the unemployment rate without pushing the economy into recession,” said … Continue reading →

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Homeowners Preserve Rising Home Equity

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Graph: MarketWatch/Black Knight American homeowners have amassed a record $6 trillion in equity in their properties, according to a study by real estate data firm Black Knight, a figure boosted by surging home prices and a trend … Continue reading →

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What Do Slowing Retail Sales Mean?

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Econoday Retail sales are slowing this fall, yet consumers’ confidence is at an all-time high. Why are consumers buying less and saving more this season? It could be higher interest rates, as the Fed has raised … Continue reading →

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Interest Rates Dangerously Low?

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: FRED Why should historically low interest rates be a problem, you say?  Doesn’t that help consumer demand by enabling consumers to buy more by borrowing more cheaply, and economic growth by encouraging companies to create more … Continue reading →

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Why aren’t Wages Growing Faster?

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: FRED Interest rates are far too low for this late in the recovery from the Great Recession. We know this because the Treasury Yield Curve has been falling that measures the difference between the 10-year and … Continue reading →

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Housing Construction Booming For How Long With a Trade War?

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner How is it possible the 10-year Treasury yield has fallen back to 2.88 percent, and the 30-year fixed conforming rate is again 4.0 percent for 1 origination point in California? It’s all because the Trump trade wars … Continue reading →

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April Housing Sales Slow

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Graph: Econoday The above graph says it all. With rising interest rates, housing sales are slowing a bit. Total existing-home sales, https://www.nar.realtor/existing-home-sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, decreased 2.5 percent … Continue reading →

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