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The painful decoupling offers a glimpse of what awaits both sides if the war in Gaza permanently ruptures ties.
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May 26, 2020
Bloomberg News
,New-home sales in the U.S. unexpectedly increased in April after swooning a month earlier, suggesting the housing market is starting to stabilize.
Purchases of single-family houses climbed 0.6 per cent from March to a 623,000 annualized pace, government data showed Tuesday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a drop to a 480,000 rate of sales. The median sale price fell 8.6 per cent from a year earlier to US$309,900.
Even with the gain, sales are unlikely to rebound to pre-coronavirus levels, said Alex Barron, an analyst with the Housing Research Center in El Paso, Texas.
“We’re still trying to understand what is the new normal,” Barron said. “Is it sales down 20 per cent from the 2019 level or down 40 per cent?”
Mortgage rates near all-time lows may be starting to put a floor under the housing market, helping explain a recent increase in builder sentiment. At the same time, soaring unemployment and tighter credit standards may limit the strength of the recovery in housing.
Three of four U.S. regions showed stronger home sales in April than a month earlier, reflecting 2.4 per cent gains in the South and Midwest, the Commerce Department’s report showed. Purchases climbed 8.7 per cent in the Northeast and dropped 6.3 per cent in the West.
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