Economy Week Ahead: Housing Blues

Posted on AllSides June 20th, 2022
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DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG NEWS
ANALYSIS

A measure of home sales is the highlight of this week’s economic news.

TUESDAY

The once red-hot U.S. housing market has slowed drastically as rising mortgage rates kept many home buyers on the sidelines. That has caused sales to slow. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect that existing-home sales declined 3.6% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.41 million. That would be the fourth straight month of declines.

THURSDAY

Initial claims for unemployment, a proxy for layoffs, are one of the earliest indications of trouble in the labor...

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