18+ hour, 4+ min ago  (936+ words) What marked new vehicle sales in March this year was the huge spike in March last year when people " misled by the media about massive price increases on new vehicles due to the tariffs " went out and bought 1.59 million new…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (709+ words) But active listings continued to rise in California and in March reached 60,521 homes for sale, the second-highest for any March over the past 10 years, behind only March 2019 (purple dotted line), but ahead of 2017, 2018, and all the others. Compared to March…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (519+ words) Farm Action " "a nonpartisan agricultural watchdog organization led by farmers," as it describes itself " has been lambasting the concentration in the agricultural system, an issue that is becoming even more urgent amid the current pressures in fertilizer pricing. "Waves of…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (1601+ words) Beer brewers and winemakers in the US are struggling with an existential crisis: A substantial decline in consumption. It hit beer first, because people switched to wines. And then it hit both after the pandemic, when alcohol consumption declined all…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (892+ words) The problem is that even before fuel prices began to spike, inflation had already been accelerating and running hot, and the current fuel price spikes will add to them: The average retail price of gasoline, all grades combined, at gas…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (880+ words) Homebuilders have been aggressively trying to build and sell homes because that's their business; they cannot wait out this market and pray for lower mortgage rates that may not come. They're fighting for market share, and they're trying to show…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1371+ words) The average price per home sold plunged by 8.3% year-over-year, and by 24%, or by $118,500, from the peak in Q3 2022, to $374,000 (red in the chart), where it had first been in 2017. The mid-range guidance for Q2 dropped to $372,500 (blue). Lower prices are what it…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (1423+ words) What kept overall energy costs from blowing out for American households over the past couple of years was the long decline of gasoline prices from the top of the spike that ended in mid-2022. But electricity prices have shot up, and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1856+ words) Year-over-year, gasoline is up by 14%. These prices will enter into the inflation calculations for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Fed-preferred PCE price index for March, to be released in April. The three-and-a-half-year long zig-zag decline in gasoline prices…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1038+ words) Sales of existing single-family homes that closed in February ticked up seasonally adjusted from January by 2.5%, making up only a small portion of the 6.2% plunge in January from December, to an annual rate of 3.73 million sales, right along at the…...