{"id":3648,"date":"2008-08-01T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2008-08-01T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:39:48","slug":"mortgage-market-week-in-review-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3648\/mortgage-market-week-in-review-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Market Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or do Fridays keep coming around faster and faster? Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m so young!<\/p>\n

Any way, it\u2019s time for our \u201cMortgage Market Week in Review.\u201d We\u2019re going to focus on a couple of main topics for today:<\/p>\n

Jobs<\/strong> – the ADP report came out on Wednesday and had some relatively positive news. That brought a lot of people in the markets thinking that the jobs report that came out this morning would be a lot more positive than the markets had been expecting. Well, we got to this morning and it came out \u201cmoderate.\u201d The market had expected 70,000 losses and we only got 51000 losses. We had expected 5.6% unemployment and we got 5.7%. So, not too bad, but not too good either. However, I\u2019ve read some technical analysis that said that due to some accounting regulations (known as the birth death of businesses adjustments) these numbers are probably overstating things to the positive. That means that next month, these numbers will probably get revised downward.<\/p>\n

Losses<\/strong> – talk about missing a target here, wow. General Motors announced that they lost $15 billion this quarter. Think about it, that\u2019s a lot of money. Even if you take out the \u201cone time\u201d expenses, that is still a LOT of money (like maybe $6 billion, I think the number was.) I read today that GM has now \u201ceaten up\u201d all of their profits that they have made since 1985. That means that a profit and loss statement for the last 23 years for General Motors would end up with a big fat $0. In addition to them, Deutsche Bank announce a 64% drop in profits and Merrill Lynch announced some staggeringly negative numbers too.<\/p>\n

House prices<\/strong> made a lot of news this week. Alan Greenspan<\/a> was talking about them and several others also made a lot of noise about what\u2019s happening with house prices. Check out the chart here<\/a> to give you a good flavor of the regionality of housing prices and how not all areas are seeing the same numbers.<\/p>\n

The Housing Bill<\/strong> – Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or do Fridays keep coming around faster and faster? Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m so young! Any way, it\u2019s time for our \u201cMortgage Market Week in Review.\u201d We\u2019re going to focus on a couple of main topics for today: Jobs – the ADP report came out on Wednesday and had some relatively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[190],"class_list":{"0":"post-3648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","7":"category-lending","8":"tag-mortgage-market","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9918,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9918\/the-jobs-report-whats-it-going-to-mean-for-mortgage-rates\/","url_meta":{"origin":3648,"position":0},"title":"The Jobs Report – what’s it going to mean for mortgage rates?","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"October 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, it\u2019s hard to believe but tomorrow morning is the first Friday of the month again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where has the year gone?\u00a0\u00a0 In some ways it has flown by and in other ways it seems like it\u2019s been about two or three years.\u00a0\u00a0 Know what I mean? 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