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Housing Starts
- Atlanta Fed Index
- Average Hourly Earnings
- Average Workweek
- Beige Book
- Building Permits
- Business Inventories
- Capacity Utilization
- Chicago PMI Index
- Construction Spending
- Consumer Confidence
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- Consumer Price Index
- Current Account
- Durable Goods Orders
- Employment Cost Index
- Existing Home Sales
- Export Prices
- Factory Orders
- Federal Budget
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- GDP Deflator
- Gross Domestic Product
- Help-Wanted Index
- Housing Starts
- Import Prices
- Industrial Production
- ISM Index
- Jobless Claims (Initial Claims)
- Leading Indicators Index
- Money Supply
- New Home Sales
- Non-farm Payrolls
- Personal Income
- Personal Spending
- Philadelphia Fed Index
- Producer Price Index
- Productivity
- Real Earnings
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- Trade Balance
- Unemployment Rate
- Unit Labor Cost
- University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Index
- Wholesale Inventories
Housing Starts
The Housing Starts indicator gauges the number of new houses. The indicator is very sensitive to changes in key interest rates, since the construction require bank loans. These data are subject to seasonal fluctuations due to the character of the real estate market. Building is directly connected with the income of the population. Therefore, the increase in construction characterizes the improved well-being and healthy development of the economy.
It has a limited impact on the market. Growth of this value has a positive impact on the currency.
- Release Frequency: monthly.
- Release Schedule: 08:30 EST, the third week of the month, along with "Building permits".
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).