Archive for December 31st, 2010

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to December 29, 2010

  • Published: December 31st, 2010
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Flat. Sort of like Mark Squidly’s loonie which finished yesterday at an amero-friendly $1.0000, with the buck basically hovering between C$1.00 and C$1.03 for over three months now. Talk about bedroom eyes; but I digress … So the Fed’s own holdings of MBS dropped once again by a material $16.259 billion that took the total figure south of $1 trillion for the first time since mid-February, while today’s modest moves brought the cenbanks’ treasuries number close to the figure from six weeks ago, the agencies one to that from eleven. Like at the end of ’09, somebody will have to…
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Arizona Housing Market "Somewhat Weaker" Than The Nation's?

  • Published: December 31st, 2010
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HousingDoom’s “Understatement of the Year Award” has to go to the Arizona Association of Realtors for this statement in their January Arizona Outlook : [Thanks L!] The underlying fundamentals for Arizona are somewhat weaker than is the case nationally, measured in terms of unemployment, distressed property, homeowner equity and commercial space availability. They offered as evidence the following chart: