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Expect slower hiring to dampen migration in 2009
10/15/08 - read more >>
The Financial Sector Bailouts Move to a New Phase
10/14/08 - read more >>
Heading into 2009, Canada’s economy will fare better than most
10/14/08 - read more >>
How did $600-800 billion of US mortgage defaults cause a worldwide economic crisis?
10/13/08 - This is the formula. Mix bad mortgages with good mortgages. Rate the bonds that finance most mortgages as prime investments by ignoring the poor quality of some of the collateral. Sell guarantees on the full payment of the mortgage bonds without the reserves to meet the guarantee. When the guarantees are called, contract all other lending – setting off a panic sale of financial assets worldwide - in a vain attempt to meet the guarantees. read more >>
The Central Bank Interest Rate Cuts Ignore Inflation
10/10/08 - read more >>
Canada’s Housing Starts in September Stay Elevated
10/10/08 - read more >>
Credit crunch damage to nonresidential construction still uncertain
10/09/08 - Private commercial construction will take the biggest hit from the credit freeze and the resulting consumer panic. The negative impact is already being felt at the pre-start development phase, probably (data still unclear) at the start stage and soon, if not already, at the work in progress stage. The Reed Construction Data 2009 outlook will have more than the usual error range until financial markets stabilizes and the amount of damage to construction can be better assessed. We judge our outlook to be slightly on the optimistic side of the consensus. read more >>
Coordinated and Unprecedented Action By the World’s Central Banks to Lower Interest Rates
10/08/08 - read more >>
Flattening office-vacancy rates point to weaker commercial construction ahead
10/08/08 - read more >>
U.S. and Canadian Dollars and the Impacts on Construction
10/07/08 - read more >>
Top 10 and Trend Graph – September 2008
10/07/08 - read more >>
Credit crunch will worsen before the Treasury fix takes hold
10/06/08 - Available credit worldwide continues to shrink. Overleveraged lenders are being forced to recognize their losses in real estate investments. Their response is to hoard their scarce capital to attempt to survive and cut lending to financial partners who may not survive and also reduce lending to their most financially marginal customers. Lots of construction industry firms are on the financially marginal list, including many large residential general contractors. read more >>
Construction Cost Increases for Four Industrial Structures Range from 3.2% to 3.5% in August
10/06/08 - read more >>
U.S. Jobs Picture Bleak according to Three Key Measures
10/06/08 - read more >>
Why do Toronto incomes lag behind those in other Canadian cities?
10/06/08 - read more >>
Auction rate market collapse weakens public works outlook
10/03/08 - Auction rate securities helped boost public construction spending nearly 50% since the beginning of 2004 until the collapse of the $330 billion market last February. The demise of this source of cheap credit is adding to the financing problems of public facility managers now beset, like all borrowers, with credit access problems due to the capital shortage at major lenders. The outlook for public works construction spending is for progressive declines for at least a year. read more >>
September job cuts signal recession into next year
10/03/08 - The September job loss in the US economy doubled to 159,000 from the January-August average. This moves the overall economy into recession. Export related job gains are slowing and no longer offset the rising job losses in domestic industries. This downward momentum will take at least several quarters to reverse. GDP growth will be slightly negative at least through next winter. Capital spending, including construction, will turn even more negative. Commercial buildings will take the initial hit and will be hurt the most. read more >>
Credit crunch damage will take several quarters to reverse
10/02/08 - The capital shortage than began at large financial firms worldwide has spread to many smaller banks and from them to the banks’ business and consumer customers. The urgent need to conserve capital at the largest lenders has shrunk available credit – and the confidence to spend – across the economy enough to push GDP into recession in the second half of this year and perhaps the early part of 2009. As always, the impact on capital spending, including construction, will be larger than on the rest of the economy. read more >>
Construction spending outlook worsens
10/02/08 - read more >>
Spending growth ends in nonresidential building and heavy project markets
10/02/08 - read more >>
Residential market recovery postponed again
10/02/08 - read more >>
Military Spending will Backstop the Virginia Beach–Norfolk economy in 2009
10/02/08 - read more >>
The Phoenix Economy will Rise Again
10/02/08 - read more >>
Construction spending steady in August
10/01/08 - Construction spending was unchanged in August according to the Census Bureau estimate released this morning. But this is a misleading reading of the trend in the construction market for the next few months. Spending is now weakening quickly as the credit crunch forces the financially weakest builders and developers to cut expenses and delay new projects. read more >>
Retail Sales Distress on Canada’s Southern Doorstep
10/01/08 - read more >>
Canadian retail holiday spending should hold up better than in the U.S.
10/01/08 - read more >>
Strongest Housing Markets are in the Southeast
09/30/08 - read more >>
US Metro Housing Markets – July 2008 – Cities 301-360
09/30/08 - read more >>
US Metro Housing Markets – July 2008 – Cities 201-300
09/30/08 - read more >>
US Metro Housing Markets – July 2008 – Cities 101-200
09/30/08 - read more >>
US Metro Housing Markets – July 2008 – Cities 1-100
09/30/08 - read more >>
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