Category: Macro Data
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Macro Data: Housing Whiffs, December Blinks
Housing starts came in at 1.221 million against a 1.30 million consensus, a 5.2% monthly drop, with the prior month revised down on top of it. At 7.5% mortgage rates, construction is finally bending. This is the first real soft-demand print of the month, and it lands against a run of inflation data that has…