January 3-6 outlook for rates, stocks, jobs, manufacturing, retail

VIDEO: Creator of Case Shiller home price index shares his housing thoughts.

When will housing be a good buy?

Revisiting home price guru Robert Shiller’s comments that ‘owning a home isn’t necessarily smart’.

Today’s stats/charts on consumer confidence, home prices, retail sales.

Today’s links. Some halloween stuff in with the serious stuff. -Bonds Beat Stocks: 1981-2011 (TheBigPicture) -Great summary of underwater refi plan (FT Alphaville) -CHARTS on Case Shiller Home Price Numbers (Bespoke) -Intriguing Policy From Chicago Fed Pres (Bonddad) -11 Ways To Ghost-Proof Your House (InmanNews) -5 Most Profitable Horror Movies Ever Made (Minyanville)

Case Shiller’s August report showed home prices across 20 major U.S. metro areas were up 0.2% since July, the fifth straight monthly ’20-City’ gain but it’s barely a gain. Prices are down 3.8% since August 2010, a slightly lower year-over-year loss from last month. Home prices are still down drastically from 2006 highs and now [...]

Home Prices Case-Shiller Home Price Index (August report) -20-city, Month/Month Seasonally adjusted +0.0 % -20-city, Month/Month Not Seasonally adjusted +0.2 % -20-city, Year/Year Not Seasonally adjusted -3.8 % FHFA Home Price Index (August report) -Month/Month -0.1% -Year/Year -4.0% Consumer Confidence -Confidence level for October was 39.8. -Previous was 45.3. Consensus was 46.0 -Consumer Confidence is [...]

Great infographic from Credit Sesame via WSJ. Interesting follow up to today’s report from S&P Case Shiller on July Home Prices. Click image for full size and writeup. WSJ has more on Credit Sesame.

Case Shiller’s July report showed home prices across 20 major U.S. metro areas were up 0.9% since June, the fourth straight monthly ’20-City’ gain after seven months of decline. But prices are down 4.1% since last July, and prices are down drastically from 2006 highs and now at 2003 levels (CHARTS BELOW). Chairman of S&P’s [...]