U.S. trade during COVID-19 : Imports and exports have plummeted differently
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RealEstate
The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has included a precipitous decline in U.S. trade: The FRED graph above shows that both imports and exports have declined more than 20% relative to a year ago. This decline may not be too surprising, given that international trade flows are usually more volatile than domestic economic activity. […]
New details on mortgage rates : What impact does a FICO score have?
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RealEstate
FRED now offers Optimal Blue Mortgage Market Indices, which provide a more-detailed look at mortgage rates. These indices are computed daily from actual mortgage closings and cover about 35% of the U.S. market. The FRED graph above compares the weekly rates from Freddie Mac (red line) and from Optimal Blue (blue line). The latter also […]
Are jobs in education still recession-proof? : Studying employment data in the education sector
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RealEstate
The U.S. economy is in recession, and the unemployment rate is above 10%. But the start of the school year is around the corner, and teachers are going back to work. Historically, student enrollment in colleges and universities increases during recessions,* but what do the data on educational employment show us? Here, we look at […]
Location, location, location in house price data : Manufactured home prices help separate the house from the land
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RealEstate
The FRED graph above shows the average price of single-family homes in the four Census regions. Homes in the Northeast are about twice as expensive as in the Midwest or the South, with the West in between. Why so? It could be that the houses have different characteristics (e.g., size and amenities), but it more […]
Mapping U.S. unemployment claims
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RealEstate
View on GeoFRED® Did you know FRED has launched a new map feature?* It’s true. And today we’ll reveal some of the benefits of using data maps by looking at unemployment claims. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment has risen to extraordinary levels, which we can see in the continued claims (insured unemployment) […]
State-level GDP losses during the pandemic : Mapping the range of economic decline across the U.S.
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RealEstate
View on GeoFRED® FRED has the latest state-level GDP data for 2020, and there’s a range of economic decline across the United States. The GeoFRED map shows regional differences in how state economic growth has been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak—from 8% declines in Nevada and New York to a 1.3% slump in Nebraska. What […]
Net worth losses in early 2020 were larger at the top
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RealEstate
Your net worth is the difference between the value of your assets and the value of your liabilities. On average, changes in household net worth are driven by changes in the value of financial assets. And these types of assets differ across classes of household wealth: The least wealthy hold assets mostly in the form […]
New to FRED: Manufactured home prices : Single and double wide data!
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RealEstate
FRED has just added data from the U.S. Census Bureau for an additional type of real estate: manufactured homes. This market is separate from and smaller than the more popular and widely watched single-family homes market, but the price data for manufactured homes have several interesting characteristics. First, manufactured homes are more uniform than other […]
The impact of social distancing on leisure and hospitality : State-level data from the BLS
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RealEstate
View on GeoFRED® The FRED Blog has discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on national retail sales and employment. And Leibovici, Santacreu, and Famiglietti index the contact-intensity of a range of occupations and estimate the economic impact of their reduced activity. Their work ranks several leisure and hospitality occupations in the high-contact category. Today, we […]
Constructing a bilateral real exchange rate : How to create new series on FRED
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RealEstate
FRED lets you create commonly used data series that are not predefined. For example, you can normalize current account balances or government budget balances by GDP and you can deflate nominal data with a price index. One popular variable that you can create is a bilateral real exchange rate index. While a nominal exchange rate […]
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