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German inflation data and comments from ECB's Lucas Papademos will top the macroeconomic release menu for the European session as U.S. markets prepa...

NEW MBA Mortgage Applications Move Down in Week Ending August 22

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 7:00 AM

Weekly mortgage applications in the United States increased in the week ending Aug. 22, according to data released from the Mortgage Bankers Associ...

NEW Bankruptcy Filings Near 1 Million Mark, Up 29% on the Year

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 7:00 AM

The number of U.S. residents and businesses that filed for bankruptcy rose 28.9% to 976,831 for the year ended June 30, 2008, according to U.S. co...

NEW Fed's Lockhart Says House Prices May Fall Another 15%

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 7:00 AM

Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart welcomed the recent rise in the U.S. dollar, but said home prices in the U.S. could fall another 10-15%. ...

NEW FDIC's Problem Bank List Continues to Grow

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 7:00 AM

Sheila C. Bair , chairman of the FDIC said, "By any yardstick, it was another rough quarter for bank earnings, but the results were not unexpected a...

NEW Mortgage Rates Drop Slightly but Loan Applications Way Down from 2007 Levels

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 7:00 AM

Mortgage interest rates broke through the gridlock of the last few weeks and, with the exception of one-year adjustable rates, moved lower. Mort...

NEW Wednesday 8/27 - As One Might NOT Expect

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 6:41 AM

NEW Wednesday 8/27 - As one might expect...

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 6:33 AM

NEW Wednesday 8/27 - At A Glance

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 6:30 AM

NEW FNMA Breaking News (industry relevant, but not a market mover at the moment)

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 2:21 PM

NEW Wednesday 8/27 - Another Order Of Business

Wed, Aug 27 2008, 1:56 AM

NEW FDIC report

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 12:19 PM

NEW Fed Minutes Salient Points

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 12:03 PM

NEW Tuesday 8/26 - Still Steady

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 11:33 AM

NEW Tuesday 8/26 ... more numbers and reactions

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 8:20 AM

NEW New home sales and Consumer Confidence In

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 8:12 AM

NEW The Day Ahead: U.S. July New Home Sales, FOMC Minutes

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

Housing data will be center of attention on Tuesday with the release of U.S. new home sales for July and the June Case- Shiller Home Price Index. ...

NEW New Home Sales Rise, but Downward Revisions to Prior Data

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

New home sales in the U.S. rebounded by 2.4% to an annual pace of 515k in July, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. Despite the percentage ga...

NEW Case-Shiller U.S. Home Price Index Declines by 15.4% in Q2

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

The S&P Case-Shiller U.S. home price index fell less than expected in the second-quarter as the 20-city composite index posted an annual decline o...

NEW Consumer Confidence Improves to 56.9 in August

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

The Conference Board's U.S. consumer confidence index for August improved to 56.9 in Tuesday's report, higher than the expected improvement to 53....

NEW U.S. House Prices Flat in June, Says OFHEO

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

U.S. house prices were flat in June following May's revised 0.4% pullback, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight ( OFHEO ) reported T...

NEW Freddie and Fannie Buck Market Trend

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

In spite of the beating the stock market took on Monday with the Dow Jones down 242 points and even though financial stocks were among the biggest l...

NEW Meeting Minutes Say FOMC's Stance Remains Neutral

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) Aug. 4-5 meeting show that board members "did not see the current stance of policy as pa...

NEW Some Economists Find "Cheery Quality" to U.S. New Homes Sales Report

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

Despite 46k of downward revisions in the previous two months, which pushed the pace of new home sales lower than expected even with a 2.4% monthly...

NEW Fed's Fisher Says Growth Could Go Negative, but Focus Remains on Inflation

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

Speaking in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires on Monday, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher (voter) said growth in the U.S. could slow to zer...

NEW Lower Gas Prices Drove Rebound in U.S. Consumer Confidence Survey

Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM

Consumer confidence continued to rise in August, which economists largely attribute to a drop in gas prices over the past several months. However,...