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Renter Nation Returns? Massive Jump In Multi-Family Unit Starts Despite Builder Sentiment Slump
Renter Nation Returns? Massive Jump In Multi-Family Unit Starts Despite Builder Sentiment Slump
US Housing Starts exploded higher by 19% MoM in June, dramatically more than the already large 11.2% MoM expectation and rebounding from the prior two ugly monthly declines.
This was the biggest monthly increase in Starts since May 2023.
On the other side, the more forward-looking Building Permits declined for a second straight month...
This shouldn't be a total surprise after yesterday's decline in builder sentiment (confidence among US homebuilders dropped for a second month to the lowest level of...
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Sep 25, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Iran Proposes 7-Day Roadmap To End War Which Mimics June MoU
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has newly proposed to the US side a seven-day roadmap aimed at ending the war, while the top Iranian delegation is still in New York City engaged in deep diplomacy on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Aragchi is said to be planning to stay through the weekend while waiting on a US response to the plan. So far it seems Tehran hasn't backed down from its core conditions, and its roadmap proposal is...
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Mar 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
US Existing Home Sales Bounced In February As Mortgage Rates Tumbled
US Existing Home Sales Bounced In February As Mortgage Rates Tumbled
Despite tumbling mortgage rates, existing home sales plunged (the most since COVID) in January, with some blaming 'below-normal temperatures' despite The West suffering the biggest declines (and unaffected by the winter storms).
Consensus was for a modest 0.8% MoM decline in February (again despite an ongoing drop in mortgage rates) but sales actually surprised to the upside, rising 1.7% MoM. Perhaps even more notably, January's 8.4% MoM plunge was revised up to a slightly less crazy 5.9% MoM drop...
Source: Bloomberg
With...
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Sep 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Judge Details Restrictions On Google Ads Business, Declines Breakup
Judge Details Restrictions On Google Ads Business, Declines Breakup
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
A federal judge on Sept. 16 unsealed the opinion she issued Sept. 2 requiring Google to open its advertising tools to competitors, share auction data with publishers, and accept a six-year monitor - without selling its ad exchange or publisher ad server.
Virginia-based U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a short order on Sept. 2 rejecting a breakup of the ad-buying and ad-selling software Google owns and accepting most of the proposed restrictions on Google's...
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