Today's economic data releases -- New Home Sales & Durable Goods Orders -- generally bad news when including prior month's negative revisions

           12/23/19

New  Home  Sales
- November 2019    up +1.3%
- October 2019    down -2.7% 
- Septmber 2019     up +3.4%
- August 2019          up +7.0%
- July 2019           down -9.5%

- June 2019             up +22.0%
- May 2019            down -8.8% 
- April 2019           down -5.1% 
- March 2019             up +3.3%
- February 2019        up +3.9%
- January  2019       up +14.2%
- December 2019  down -8.3% 

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           12/23/19

Durable  Goods  Orders
- November 2019    down -2.0%
- October 2019            up +0.2%
- September 2019  down -1.5%
- August 2019            up +0.2%

- July 2019                 up +2.1%
- June 2019                up +1.8%
- May 2019             down -2.3%
- April 2019            down -2.8%
- March 2019              up +1.7%
- February  2019    down -2.6%
- January 2019           up +0.5%
- December 2018        up +1.1%

Durable Goods excluding 

volatile transportation orders:
     Unchanged in November 2019
         Up +0.3% in October 2019
     Down -0.6% in September 2019 
 Up only +0.1% in August 2019
     Down -0.5% in July 2019
         Up +0.7% in June 2019
         Up +0.4% in May 2019
     Down -0.2% in April 2019
     Down -0.5% in March 2019
     Down -0.3% in February 2019
 Up only +0.1% in January 2019

         Up +0.2% in December 2018

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All monthly economic 
data releases are always 
at the link below:
  www.ELblog2019.Blogspot.com