The index showed a strong rebound in home sales from September to October, rising 10.4% to a reading of 89.3.
And on Friday the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending fell 0.2% in October, after rising 0.8% in September.
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The price of goods leaving factories barely rose in November from October, as rising fuel prices were offset by a drop in car prices.
But the biggest mystery is why, despite bond yields that have been rising since October 1998, share prices have continued to climb.
The downtrend reversed on October 8, confirmed by rising stochastics and a relative strength index rebounding from oversold territory.
The destructive flooding caused by the storm Sandy, which struck the U.S. East Coast in late October, revived anxieties about rising ocean levels in heavily populated coastal regions.
Note how rapidly rising yields predicted the October 1987 crash.
Chrysler capped off its best October in five years, with sales rising 10% despite the three-day disruption of Hurricane Sandy. (Ford, for example, despite estimating that the storm cost the industry 20, 000 to 25, 000 sales, reported a small sales increase.) With gas prices declining and consumer sentiment rising, experts expect automotive manufacturers to experience gains into 2013.
The previous jobs report showed nonfarm payrolls rising by 184, 000 in October, with the unemployment rate picking up 0.1 percentage points.
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Giving a big boost to stocks was the release at 10:00 a.m. of the ISM Manufacturing Survey, showing a second straight month of expansion, with index of factory activity rising to 51.7 in October, up from up from 51.5 in September.
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Large Barrick purchases in September and October may have had a positive impact on the rising price of gold and reduce future demand, a bearish sign.
On October 1st, Action Democratique du Quebec, a rising force in that province's politics, called for greater private involvement in providing and paying for health services, to increase choice.
In October every year, the first rays of the rising sun reach across the Nile, penetrate the temple and move along the hypostyle hall, through the vestibule and into the sanctuary, where they illuminate the somewhat mutilated figures of Ra-Horakhty, Ramses II and Amun.
It also found the rising price of energy, fuel and food in October has driven up costs for businesses.
Indeed, the popular rising that inadvertently swept Mr Mesa to power last October was led by radicals who wanted to renationalise the oil and gas industries.
The last bull market, which ended in October 2007, continued for a year after its first Dow record, rising 21% in that period.
Chavez and his revolution are so powerful that various governments in South America, including that of Brazil, a rising world power, viewed the victory of Chavez in the October elections as a necessary condition for the continuity of regional integration.
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Real residential investment was up another 12.6% in the January-March period, after rising 17.6% year-over-year in the October-December quarter.
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As the economic recovery began taking shape last fall the number of temp jobs began rising and had averaged a monthly increase of 41, 000 since October.
Nailing down inflation has been a major priority for China's leaders, who have taken measures to combat the rising cost of consumer goods, including four interest-rate increases since October.
On October 2nd the Hang Seng index closed above 28, 000 for the first time, rising 3.9% in one day.
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In October 2010 David Cameron signalled that after five years of cuts, defence spending would start rising again from 2015 onwards.
Strong production data helped lift mining stocks in Sydney, with shares of BHP Billiton Ltd. rising 0.8% after its iron-ore output surged 22% in October-December.
On the same day as the strikes began, in a concession designed to mollify woes about rising prices, the government announced that a 2p increase in fuel duty planned for October was to be postponed until next spring.
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In turn, that has kept inflation in services on a rising trend, reaching an annualised rate of 3.5% in the three months to October.
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