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Housing Market Index  
Released On 12/17/2018 10:00:00 AM For Dec, 2018
 PriorConsensusConsensus RangeActual
Index60 61 58  to 65 56 
US 6-Mo ChartGlobal Current
performance relative to consensus

Consensus Outlook
A lifeless rebound is the call for December's housing market index which is expected to recover only 1 point following November's sudden and shocking 8-point plunge to 60. All components fell sharply in November especially expectations for future sales.

Relative Performance Index

Econoday's RPI provides a handy summary measure of how an economy has recently been evolving relative to market expectations.
A reading above zero means that the economy in general has been performing more strongly than expected and vice versa for a reading below zero. The closer is the value to the maximum (+100) or minimum (-100) levels, the greater is the degree to which markets have been under- or over-estimating economic activity. A zero outturn would imply that, on average, the market consensus has been correct. Note too that the index is sensitized to place extra weight upon those indicators that investors consider to be the most important.

 

Definition
The housing market index is a monthly composite that tracks home builder assessments of present and future sales as well as buyer traffic. The index is a weighted average of separate diffusion indexes: present sales of new homes, sales of new homes expected in the next six months, and traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. Why Investors Care

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