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20.10.26 - 17:33
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US Pending Home Sales Collapse To Record Lows In September (ZeroHedge)
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US Pending Home Sales Collapse To Record Lows In September
And the housing market's annus horribilis continues (existing home sales near COVID lows, mortgage rates at three year highs, homebuilder confidence at GFC lows, homebuyer confidence at record lows, housing starts near COVID lows)...
After a very small rebound (+0.3% MoM) in August, US Pending Home Sales collapsed (-7.3% MoM vs -3.9% MoM exp) in September. That dragged
“Market conditions weakened in September due to fast-rising mortgage rates,” says Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist.
“Although job growth and income gains can support home purchases, housing affordability is more affected by changes in mortgage rates...
...Buyers and sellers may simply be holding back until mortgage rates move favorably.”
September's slump smashes the Pending Home Sales Index to a record low...
But Yun believes - ever the optimist - that the rapid run-up in mortgage rates over the last month may be nearing the end.
“Given that mortgage ...
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20.10.26 - 17:12
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AI Fears Roar Back, Tech Earnings on Deck (Bloomberg)
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A rebound in the artificial intelligence trade sputtered after the dismal debut of a South Korean data center firm revived concerns about whether the technology's spending boom can last.
Seoul's Kospi Index fell 3.8% on a fresh bout of weakness in two of the world's biggest memory makers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. AI infrastructure group Elice Inc. suffered the worst opening day for a sizable company on the bourse, even after an initial public offering that was 400 times subscribed.
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20.10.26 - 16:36
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Lübecker Maklerpool: Blau Direkt meldet Umsatzsprung nach oben (Das Investment)
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Im vergangenen Jahr habe man ein Drittel mehr Umsatz als im Jahr zuvor gemacht, meldet aktuell Blau Direkt. Wie die Lübecker nach Kennzahlen dastehen. Blau Direkt hat nach eigenen Angaben im Geschäftsjahr 2025 kräftig zugelegt: Der Umsatz sei um 33,6 Prozent auf 335,7 Millionen Euro geklettert, der Rohertrag im selben Zeitraum um 32 Prozent auf 63,4 Millionen Euro, berichten die Lübecker. Damit verzeichne Blau "das stärkste prozentuale Wachstum unter den führenden deutschen Anbietern", wie es aus dem Haus heißt. Als Vergleichsmaßstab zieht das Unternehmen die im August 2026 erschienene jüngste Maklerpool-Hitliste des Branchenmagazins Cash heran.Blau Direkt beruft sich außerdem auf erste Ergebnisse einer Trendstudie zum Markt der Maklerpools und -verbünde, die das......
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