Mike “Mish” Shedlock's
Sitka Pacific Capital Management,Llc
The Oct construction spending report was much weaker than expected. That's on top of huge negative revisions for Sept.
Gigantic Miss
Economists at Econoday expected construction spending to rise 0.4% in October. Instead, spending fell 0.8%.
Worse yet, the Census Department revised september spending from 0.5% to -0.3%.
All told that is a gigantic economic estimate miss of a full 2.0 percentage points.
Residential Construction
Despite glowing new home sales reports, residential construction spending peaked in February of 2018.
Government spending has kept total construction spending flat.
If this was a single report, I would suspect an outlier. But the key chart lines point to early 2018.
New Home Sales Highest in 12 Years
Six days ago I reported New Home Sales Highest in 12 Years.
Q: Does today's report make sense?
A: Actually, it does.
Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States
The median home sales price peaked in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Builders are building cheaper homes because no one can afford anything else.
This material is based upon information that Sitka Pacific Capital Management considers reliable and endeavors to keep current, Sitka Pacific Capital Management does not assure that this material is accurate, current or complete, and it should not be relied upon as such.
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