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Tag: U.S. economy
U.S. HOME PRICES FALL BY MOST SINCE 2012
The median U.S. home price sank by 3.1 percent in May in the largest year-over-year drop since December 2011, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported.
YELLEN AGREES WITH CELENTE: MORE BANKS WILL MERGE
More banks will merge this year as their costs rise, operating margins shrink, and other institutions offer higher interest rates to depositors, U.S. treasury secretary Janet Yellen said at last week’s conference in Paris on global debt and climate issues.
HARD TIMES AHEAD FOR PRIVATE LENDERS, MOODY’S WARNS
The private credit industry—lenders other than banks, such as private equity firms—is confronting its “first serious challenge” as tens of billions of dollars in loans made at the height of a booming economy are coming due amid slumping global business activity, Moody’s Analytics said.
EVICTIONS SKYROCKET AFTER COVID-ERA PROTECTIONS EXPIRE
Since the federal ban on COVID-era evictions ended on 21 October, 2021, evictions have shot up across the U.S. and by as much as 50 percent in some cities.
THE AMERICAN DREAM TURNING INTO A NIGHTMARE
A key component of the traditional “American Dream” is the ideal that anyone can climb from poverty to prosperity by their own hard work.
FED PROBABLY WILL HIKE RATES MORE SLOWLY, POWELL SAYS
After raising interest rates 10 times in as many meetings, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is likely to move rates higher less often, Fed chair Jerome Powell told the House financial services committee on 21 June.
U.S. BOND MARKET BETS ON RECESSION
Investors in treasury bonds are raising their bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve’s steady stream of interest rate increases will tip the economy into recession this year, even though the stock prices stay high and a growing number of economists doubt the economy will shrink, the Financial Times reported.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
In identifying, analyzing and forecasting trends, it is essential to understand that all things are connected. As Chief Seattle said in 1855, “All things are connected, like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: INVESTORS BACK AWAY FROM DOWNTOWN PROJECTS
Remote workers have moved out of city centers. Now investors are following them.
Real estate trusts focused on investment in downtown areas are trading at less than half their pre-COVID levels, The Wall Street Journal reported. Lenders are demanding extra interest to make loans against office buildings; bonds to support New York City’s bus and subway system have a hard time finding buyers.