Succinct Summation of Week's Events 8.21.15

August 21, 2015 4:30pm by

Succinct Summations for the week ending August 21st

Positives:

1. Housing starts came in at 1.21mm, up from 1.2 and better than the 1.185 expected.
2. Philly Fed came in at 8.3, up from 5.7 and better than the 6 expected.
3. Mortgage rates fell to another multi month low at 4.11%,
4. Refinance applications rose 7.2% and are up 21.2% y/o/y.
5. Japanese exports rose 7.6% y/o/y.

 
Negatives:

1. Rough week for stocks, with the S&P 500 posting its largest 5-day decline since November 2011.
2. FOMC minutes from July reflect a divided committee leaning towards an increase this year, in September or December.
3. Not a whiff of inflation, CPI and core CPI rose just 0.1%.
4. Markit US manufacturing fell to 52.9, the lowest reading since October 2013.
5. Empire manufacturing fell to -14.9 vs expectations of +3.9.

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