This Week: Housing Data

Tuesday

Only one big report today at 10:00 AM with the National Association of Realtors existing-home sales reported expected to show sales rising 2% to 4.2M in January.

Wednesday

At 7:00 AM, mortgage demand and rates from the prior week and at 2:00 PM we get the minutes from the last FOMC meeting.

Thursday

At 8:30 AM jobless claims are expected to rise to 200k and at noon we will get mortgage rates for the week.

Friday

The busiest day of the week starts at 8:30 AM with personal income and spending expected to have increased by 0.9% and 1.3%, respectively. The PCE price index is expected to show price growth slowing to 4.8%. At 10:00 AM, new home sales are expected to have risen by 0.3% in January.