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Monday, July 25, 2022

Tuesday: New Home Sales, Case-Shiller House Prices, Richmond Fed Mfg

by Calculated Risk on 7/25/2022 08:55:00 PM

Mortgage Rates Tuesday:
• At 9:00 AM ET, S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index for May. The consensus is for a 21.0% year-over-year increase in the Comp 20 index for May.

• Also at 9:00 AM, FHFA House Price Index for May. This was originally a GSE only repeat sales, however there is also an expanded index.

• At 10:00 AM, New Home Sales for June from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for 666 thousand SAAR, down from 696 thousand in May.

• Also at 10:00 AM, Richmond Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for July.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):


Hospitalizations have almost quadrupled from the lows in April 2022.

COVID Metrics
 NowWeek
Ago
Goal
New Cases per Day2120,032129,355≤5,0001
Hospitalized233,22634,347≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2365380≤501
1my goals to stop daily posts,
27-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths
🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths
✅ Goal met.

COVID-19 Positive Tests per DayClick on graph for larger image.

This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.

Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.