Tuesday will feature the September Producer Price Index (PPI) and the October National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) housing market index.
The National Association of Purchasing Managers' index of manufacturing activity fell to 43.6 in July from 44.7 a month before.
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The National Association of Purchasing Managers' index of manufacturing activity rose to 47.9 in August from 43.6 a month before, its biggest monthly gain in five years.
Also, the National Association of Realtors said its index of pending home sales rose 0.3% in September to 99.5, although this was less than the expected 2.1% gain.
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There was more gloom on October 30th, when the Mortgage Bankers Association published its latest weekly index of mortgage activity: the decline in the past month was the steepest for five years.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday that its index of mortgage applications for the week ended Dec. 19, which includes both purchase and refinance loans, hit its highest rate in five years, jumping 48.0% to 1, 245.4.
Things took a turn for the worse after the National Association of Homebuilders reported its July index of builder confidence.
With Wells Fargo, a big bank, the National Association of Homebuilders publishes a monthly index of builders' perceptions of the housing market.
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The National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index has been 20 or lower since September 2007 after being as high as 72 in June 2005.
The Housing Market Index from the National Association of Home Builders continues to make new post-recession highs, while building permits and housing starts are markedly increasing.
Recent bad news included a sharp fall in the National Association of Purchasing Management's index of manufacturing activity in December: it hit its lowest level since April 1991.
The second leg of the argument seems to have fallen short, as the Census Bureau's figures on housing starts, and the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) index on mortgage applications are both down substantially.
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in March, fell 1% to 83.0, the lowest since this index began in 2001, and was 20.1% lower than a year ago.
Last week we learned that National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index fell two points to 42 in April despite a rise in housing starts in March that exceeded an annual rate of one million units.
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Meanwhile, the National Association of Home Builders reported that its index of industry confidence was at its lowest since February 1991.
Factory activity as measured by the Institute for Supply Management, formerly the National Association of Purchasing Management, rose to an index level of 48.2 in December.
The National Association of Realtors said its Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in November, dropped 4% to 82.3, the lowest since the series started in 2001.
The National Association of Home Builders will release their Housing Market Index at 10:00 EST.
Historically low interest rates and bottom-of-the-trough housing prices have combined to increase the Housing Affordability Index (as reported by the National Association of Realtors) to record highs.
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The National Association of Home Builders will release its September housing market index on Monday.
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The Internet Activity Index (IAI) at the Online Publishers Association site has historically monitored category shifts in traffic month to month.
And to top it all off, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index slipped 1.8% to 80.9 in September.
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My favored ways of measuring investor sentiment are the poll of its members by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), and the VIX Index.
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The National Association of Home Builders is going to release its housing market index on Tuesday, while the Commerce Department is going to announce January new housing starts on Wednesday.
In notable economic news this week, the National Association of Realtors announced on Wednesday that the Pending Home Sales Index, which is based on contracts that were signed last month fell by 0.4% to 104.8.
"The investigators examined changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and then its association with change in body fatness or BMI (body mass index), and subsequent deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, " says Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington and chair of the American Heart Assocation's Nutrition Committee, who was not involved in the study.
Detroit is actually expanding as a casino market the American Gaming Association bumped it up to fourth in a 2011 top gaming city index.
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