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Jobless Claims Held Steady At 366,000 Last Week
August 16, 2012 First-time claims for unemployment insurance rose by just 2,000 from the week before.
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Housing Starts Hit Four-Year High
July 18, 2012 At an annual rate of 760,000, ground-breaking for construction of single-family homes, apartments and condominiums the pace rose 6.9 percent in June from May
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Signs Of Strength In Latest Housing Data
June 19, 2012 There was a 7.9 percent jump in the number of construction permits issued to home builders in May. And construction began on more single family homes than in April.
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Is Housing Sector Getting Better? Increase In Starts May Signal It Is
May 16, 2012 There was a 2.6 percent increase in housing starts in April from March, the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development say.
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Jobless Claims Drop, Inflation At 3 Percent, Housing Starts Cool
January 19, 2012 First-time claims for unemployment insurance plunged by 50,000 last week from the week before, to 352,000. They're now near a four-year low.
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Home Construction Rose In November; 2011 Still A Weak Year
December 20, 2011 Home construction is still running at a pace about half of what would happen in a healthy housing market.
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Housing Starts Rise; Consumer Prices Go Up Slightly
October 19, 2011 The gain in housing starts was the best in 17 months, but they're still not back to the level of a year ago.
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Housing Starts Gained In June
July 19, 2011 There was a 14.6 percent increase in housing starts in June from May, the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development report. Construction (at an annualized rate) was begun on 629,000 homes and apartment buildings.
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Jobless Claims Dip; Housing Starts Rise
June 16, 2011 The number of first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell by 16,000 last week. Meanwhile, housing starts rose by 3.5 percent in May from April.
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Housing Starts Plunge In April
May 17, 2011 There's no sugar-coating it: the Commerce Department says during April, builders got started on fewer homes in the U.S. Housing starts, as they're called, were down 10.6% from March's report, and they're 23.9% lower than what they were a year ago at the same time.
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Housing Starts Rose In March
April 19, 2011 Even after a 7.2 percent increase from February, though, starts were still 13.4 percent below the level of March 2010.
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Housing-Starts Trend Makes A Gnarly Chart
June 16, 2010 Housing-Starts Trend Makes A Gnarly Chart