Today the Census Bureau released the monthly New Residential Construction report for March. As usual, Calculated Risk has done a fine job summarizing the figures.
Now that the housing completions figures have followed the housing starts figures ‘off a cliff’, we expect significant residential construction job losses to begin to appear in the monthly Nonfarm Payroll [...]

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Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Bob Brinker

The New York Times has a nifty online tool that allows consumers to estimate the home price appreciation(depreciation) in their area versus the annual rental increase to determine whether it is a better financial decision to rent or buy a home. It outputs the number of years it could take to breakeven on the purchase.

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Posted on April 11th, 2007 by Bob Brinker

The April 2007 Brinker Fixed Income Advi$or is available for subscriber access on our website today.

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Posted on April 3rd, 2007 by Bob Brinker

Here is a good Barron’s article discussing the progress made this year on many new fixed income ETFs.

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Posted on April 1st, 2007 by Bob Brinker