Economic Data Releases in the past week

All economic data releases tracked 
on this blog, many with charts, 
are here:
https://elblog2019.blogspot.com/

Note: 

During healthy 

economic growth, 

at least three-quarters

of data releases 

are good news,

(in black ink), 

so bad news

(in red ink) 

will be rare:

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3/8/18  

Housing  Starts  

- January 2019         up +18.6%
- December 2018 down -14.0%
- November 2018   down -0.2%

- October 2018      down -2.3%

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 3/4/19
Construction  Spending
- December 2018   down -0.6%
- November 2018       up +0.8%
- October 2018           up +0.2%
- September 2018   down -1.8%

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           3/5/19

New  Home  Sales  

- December 2018      up +3.7%
- November 2018      up +9.1%
- October 2018      down -9.9% 
- September 2018      up +2.7%
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     3/8/19

Household  

Employment  
Survey

    Note: 

50% more volatile, 

from month to month,

than the headline

Payroll Survey 

-- so I recommend 

averaging three months

of data: 

   Employment 

- Employment up      +255,000 in February 2019  (63.2%)
                                                                    ( 63.2% is the labor force participation rate )
- Employment down  -251,000 in January 2019    (63.2%)
- Employment up      +142,000 in December 2018 (63.2%)
- Employment up      +233,000 in November 2018 (62.9%)

   Unemployment

- Unemployment down -300,000 in February 2019
- Unemployment     up +241,000 in January 2019 
- Unemployment     up +276,000 in December 2018 
- Unemployment  down -94,000 in November 2018