Consumer confidence declines unexpectedly, but auto sales are off to a strong start.
Sales of new homes declined unexpectedly in July, the government said on Wednesday in the second report this week that showed that the housing sector stalled last month.
Groundbreaking on American homes declined unexpectedly in March, the Commerce Department reported, but permits for future construction rose to their highest level in three and a half years.
A report showed that sales of new homes declined unexpectedly in December for the first time in four months, capping the slowest year on record for builders.
That encouraged stock traders, as did a government report that showed that the producer price index, a measure of inflation, declined unexpectedly last month.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits declined unexpectedly last week, another indication that the job market may be healing as the economy slowly recovers.
Stocks fell, reversing a rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average toward its highest level since 2008 earlier Thursday, after bank shares tumbled and a report showed that sales of new homes declined unexpectedly.
Thus, though fertility is declining unexpectedly in a poor country like India, which has more than a billion people, the actual numbers continue to rise rapidly because the base is so large.
The number of new Ebola cases has declined unexpectedly fast in recent months, especially in Liberia.
At the same time, the rate of cognitive decline was unexpectedly slow.
J.P. Morgan Chase, the nation's second-largest bank, reported weaker fourth-quarter earnings yesterday, attributing the decline to unexpectedly large merger-related expenses.
