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Existing-Home Sales Fall for 12th Consecutive Month; Lowest Since 2010

Advisor Perspectives

This is the lowest level of sales since October 2010 and is worse than the Investing.com forecast of 4.10 The latest number represents a 0.7% This morning's release of the January existing home sales showed that sales fell slightly to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.00 million units from the previous month's 4.03 decrease YoY.

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I Ran The Numbers And They Work!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The 2010's was a rough decade for managed futures in nominal terms. I had enough previous experience with managed futures to understand the concept would work. Part of how they positioned the concept before the fund launched was a chart similar to this one. The S&P 500 was up 244% and managed futures went nowhere.

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Fannie "Real Estate Owned" inventory Decreased 10% in Q2 2024

Calculated Risk

Fannie Mae reported the number of REOs decreased to 7,179 at the end of Q2 2024, down 10% from 7,971 at the end of the previous quarter, and down 17% year-over-year from Q2 2023. For Fannie, this is down 96% from the 166,787 peak number of REOs in Q3 2010. Here is some information on single-family Real Estate Owned (REOs).

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Fannie "Real Estate Owned" inventory Decreased in Q1 2024

Calculated Risk

Fannie Mae reported the number of REOs decreased to 7,791 at the end of Q1 2024, down 5% from 8,403 at the end of the previous quarter, and down 9% year-over-year from Q1 2023. For Fannie, this is down 95% from the 166,787 peak number of REOs in Q3 2010. Here is some information on single-family Real Estate Owned (REOs).

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Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments

The Big Picture

Barry has written extensively about denominator blindness, i.e. throwing out a number without any context whatsoever. Well, the number is actually very close to the latter (1.470 million): So, 10k on 1.470 million is less than 1 percent — 0.68% to be exact. certain that the Journal got the number from BLS. But whatever.

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U.S. Demographics: Largest 5-year cohorts, and Ten most Common Ages in 2022

Calculated Risk

The table below shows the top 10 cohorts by size for 2010, 2022 (released recently), and the most recent Census Bureau projections for 2030. And below is a table showing the ten most common ages in 2010, 2021, and 2030 (projections are from the Census Bureau, 2017 ). Note the younger baby boom generation dominated in 2010.

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Fannie "Real Estate Owned" inventory essentially unchanged in Q1

Calculated Risk

Fannie Mae reported the number of REOs increased to 8,780 at the end of Q1 2023, essentially unchanged from 8,779 in Q4 2022, and up 18% from 7,430 at the end of Q1 2022. For Fannie, this is down 95% from the 166,787 peak number of REOs in Q3 2010. Foreclosure have increased slightly since the end of the foreclosure moratorium.

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