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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Q2 2023 Update: Unofficial Problem Bank list Increased to 47 Institutions

by Calculated Risk on 7/30/2023 08:21:00 AM

The Heartland Tri-State Bank was closed on Friday, but wasn't on the unofficial list.

The FDIC's official problem bank list is comprised of banks with a CAMELS rating of 4 or 5, and the list is not made public (just the number of banks and assets every quarter). Note: Bank CAMELS ratings are also not made public.

CAMELS is the FDIC rating system, and stands for Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity and Sensitivity to market risk. The scale is from 1 to 5, with 1 being the strongest.

As a substitute for the CAMELS ratings, surferdude808 is using publicly announced formal enforcement actions, and also media reports and company announcements that suggest to us an enforcement action is likely, to compile a list of possible problem banks in the public interest.

DISCLAIMER: This is an unofficial list, the information is from public sources only, and while deemed to be reliable is not guaranteed. No warranty or representation, expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy of the information contained herein and same is subject to errors and omissions. This is not intended as investment advice. Please contact CR with any errors.


NOTE: I'm no longer updating the spreadsheet.

Here are the quarterly changes and a few comments from surferdude808:
Update on the Unofficial Problem Bank List through June 30, 2023. Since the last update at the end of March 2023, the list increased by one to 47 institutions after three additions and two removals. Assets increased by $5.7 billion to $55 billion, overcoming a $3.1 billion decrease from updated asset figures through March 31, 2023. A year ago, the list held 54 institutions with assets of $54.4 billion. Additions include Cross River Bank, Teaneck, NJ ($8.5 billion); The Idabel National Bank, Idabel, OK ($292 million); and Du Quoin State Bank, Du Quoin, IL ($137 million). Removals were United Trust Bank, Palos Heights, IL ($143 million) and Wabash Savings Bank, Mount Carmel, IL ($9.6 million).

With the conclusion of the second quarter, we bring an updated transition matrix to detail how banks are transitioning off the Unofficial Problem Bank List. Since we first published the Unofficial Problem Bank List on August 7, 2009 with 389 institutions, 1,784 institutions have appeared on a weekly or monthly list since then. Only 2.6 percent of the banks that have appeared on a list remain today as 1,745 institutions have transitioned through the list. Departure methods include 1,032 action terminations, 411 failures, 283 mergers, and 19 voluntary liquidations. Of the 389 institutions on the first published list, only 3 or less than 1.0 percent, still have a troubled designation more than ten years later. The 411 failures represent nearly 23 percent of the 1,792 institutions that have made an appearance on the list. This failure rate is well above the 10-12 percent rate frequently cited in media reports on the failure rate of banks on the FDIC's official list.

On May 31, 2023, the FDIC released first quarter results and provided an update on the Official Problem Bank List. While FDIC did not make a comment within its press release on the Official Problem Bank List, they provided aggregate totals of 43 institutions with assets of $58 billion.

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Case-Shiller House Prices Decreased 0.5% year-over-year

by Calculated Risk on 7/29/2023 02:11:00 PM

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:

Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Decreased 0.5% year-over-year in May

New Home Sales decrease to 697,000 Annual Rate in June

Fannie and Freddie: Single-Family Mortgage Delinquency Rate Declined, Multi-Family Increased in June

Inflation Adjusted House Prices 4.4% Below Peak

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Schedule for Week of July 30, 2023

by Calculated Risk on 7/29/2023 08:11:00 AM

The key report this week is the July employment report.

Other key reports include ISM manufacturing and services indexes and July vehicle sales.

----- Monday, July 31st -----

9:45 AM ET: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for July.

10:30 AM: Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for July.

2:00 PM: Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) for July.

----- Tuesday, August 1st -----

8:00 AM ET: Corelogic House Price index for June

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey10:00 AM ET: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for June from the BLS.

This graph shows job openings (yellow line), hires (purple), Layoff, Discharges and other (red column), and Quits (light blue column) from the JOLTS.

Jobs openings decreased in May to 9.8 million from 10.3 million in April.

The number of job openings (black) were down 14% year-over-year and Quits were down 5% year-over-year.

10:00 AM: ISM Manufacturing Index for July. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 46.5, up from 46.0 in June. 

10:00 AM: Construction Spending for June. The consensus is for no change in construction spending.

Vehicle SalesAll Day: Light vehicle sales for July from the BEA. The consensus is for light vehicle sales to be 15.5 million SAAR in July, down from 15.7 million in June (Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate).

This graph shows light vehicle sales since the BEA started keeping data in 1967. The dashed line is the sales rate for last month.

----- Wednesday, August 2nd -----

7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.

8:15 AM: The ADP Employment Report for July. This report is for private payrolls only (no government). The consensus is for 185,000 payroll jobs added in July, down from 497,000 in June.

10:00 AM: the Q2 2023 Housing Vacancies and Homeownership from the Census Bureau.

----- Thursday, August 3rd -----

8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for 228 thousand initial claims, up from 221 thousand last week.

10:00 AM: the ISM Services Index for July.   The consensus is for a reading of 53.1, down from 53.9.

----- Friday, August 4th -----

Employment per month8:30 AM: Employment Report for July.   The consensus is for 184,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 3.6%.

There were 209,000 jobs added in June, and the unemployment rate was at 3.6%.

This graph shows the jobs added per month since January 2021.

Friday, July 28, 2023

July 28th COVID Update: New Pandemic Lows for Deaths

by Calculated Risk on 7/28/2023 08:40:00 PM

Mortgage RatesNote: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.

Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated.

After the first few weeks, the pandemic low for weekly deaths had been the week of July 7, 2021, at 1,690 deaths (until recently).  

For COVID hospitalizations, the previous low was 9,821 (until recently).  

The last few months have seen a positive trend.

COVID Metrics
 NowWeek
Ago
Goal
Hospitalized2🚩5,6485,406≤3,0001
Deaths per Week2405494≤3501
1my goals to stop weekly posts,
2Weekly for Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths
🚩 Increasing number weekly for Hospitalized and Deaths
✅ Goal met.

COVID-19 Deaths per WeekClick on graph for larger image.

This graph shows the weekly (columns) number of deaths reported.

For deaths, I'm currently using 3 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent two weeks will be revised significantly.

Las Vegas June 2023: Visitor Traffic Up 1.5% YoY; Convention Traffic Down 2.9% YoY

by Calculated Risk on 7/28/2023 03:01:00 PM

Note: I like using Las Vegas as a measure of recovery for both leisure (visitors) and business (conventions).

From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: June 2023 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics

Punctuated by the Vegas Golden Knights' victorious quest for the Stanley Cup, Las Vegas visitation in June surpassed last year as the destination hosted more than 3.4M visitors, +3.1% YoY.

Overall hotel occupancy reached 85.5% for the month (+2.8 pts YoY). Weekend occupancy matched last June, reaching 90.2% (+0.2 pts YoY), and Midweek occupancy reached 83.5%, surpassing last June by 3.5 pts.

Overall ADR exceeded $165, +5.3% from June 2022 while RevPAR reached $141, +8.8% YoY
Las Vegas Visitor Traffic Click on graph for larger image.

The first graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (Black), 2020 (light blue), 2021 (purple), 2022 (orange), and 2023 (red).

Visitor traffic was up 3.1% compared to last June.

Visitor traffic was down 5.0% compared to the same month in 2019.

The second graph shows convention traffic.

Las Vegas Visitor Traffic
Convention traffic was down 2.9% compared to June 2022, and down 11.4% compared to June 2019.

Note: There was almost no convention traffic from April 2020 through May 2021.

Hotels: Occupancy Rate Up 0.5% Year-over-year

by Calculated Risk on 7/28/2023 02:43:00 PM

U.S. hotel performance increased from the previous week and showed improved comparisons year over year, according to CoStar’s latest data through 22 July. ...

16-22 July 2023 (percentage change from comparable week in 2022):

Occupancy: 72.9% (+0.5%)
• Average daily rate (ADR): US$161.65 (+1.5%)
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$117.91 (+2.0%)
emphasis added
The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using the four-week average.

Hotel Occupancy RateClick on graph for larger image.

The red line is for 2023, black is 2020, blue is the median, and dashed light blue is for 2022.  Dashed purple is for 2018, the record year for hotel occupancy. 

The 4-week average of the occupancy rate is at the median rate for the period 2000 through 2022 (Blue).

Note: Y-axis doesn't start at zero to better show the seasonal change.

The 4-week average of the occupancy rate will increase seasonally over the next few weeks.

Inflation Adjusted House Prices 4.4% Below Peak; Price-to-rent index is 7.9% below recent peak

by Calculated Risk on 7/28/2023 10:46:00 AM

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Inflation Adjusted House Prices 4.4% Below Peak; Price-to-rent index is 7.9% below recent peak

Excerpt:

It has been over 17 years since the bubble peak. In the May Case-Shiller house price index released Tuesday, the seasonally adjusted National Index (SA), was reported as being 64% above the bubble peak in 2006. However, in real terms, the National index (SA) is about 8% above the bubble peak (and historically there has been an upward slope to real house prices).  The composite 20, in real terms, is 2% below the bubble peak.

People usually graph nominal house prices, but it is also important to look at prices in real terms.  As an example, if a house price was $200,000 in January 2000, the price would be $358,000 today adjusted for inflation (79% increase).  That is why the second graph below is important - this shows "real" prices.

The third graph shows the price-to-rent ratio, and the fourth graph is the affordability index. The last graph shows the 5-year real return based on the Case-Shiller National Index.
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PCE Measure of Shelter Slows to 8.0% YoY in June

by Calculated Risk on 7/28/2023 09:17:00 AM

Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE report this morning, both through June 2023.

ShelterCPI Shelter was up 7.8% year-over-year in June, down from 8.0% in May, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March 2023.


Housing (PCE) was up 8.0% YoY in June, down from 8.3% in May, and down from the cycle peak of 8.4% in April 2023.

Since asking rents are mostly unchanged year-over-year, these measures will slow sharply in coming months.

Personal Income increased 0.3% in June; Spending increased 0.5%

by Calculated Risk on 7/28/2023 08:36:00 AM

The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for June:

Personal income increased $69.5 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in June, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI), personal income less personal current taxes, increased $67.5 billion (0.3 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $100.4 billion (0.5 percent).

The PCE price index increased 0.2 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index also increased 0.2 percent. Real DPI increased 0.2 percent in June and real PCE increased 0.4 percent; goods increased 0.9 percent and services increased 0.1 percent.
emphasis added
The June PCE price index increased 3.0 percent year-over-year (YoY), down from 3.8 percent YoY in May, and down from the recent peak of 7.0 percent in June 2022.

The PCE price index, excluding food and energy, increased 4.1 percent YoY, down from 4.6 percent in May, and down from the recent peak of 5.4 percent in February 2022.

The following graph shows real Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) through June 2023 (2012 dollars). Note that the y-axis doesn't start at zero to better show the change.

Personal Consumption Expenditures Click on graph for larger image.

The dashed red lines are the quarterly levels for real PCE.

Personal income was slightly below expectations, and PCE was slightly above expectations.

Inflation was below expectations.

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Friday: Personal Income and Outlays

by Calculated Risk on 7/27/2023 08:47:00 PM

Mortgage RatesNote: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.

Friday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Personal Income and Outlays, June 2022. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.4% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.2%.  PCE prices are expected to be up 3.1% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.2% YoY.

• At 10:00 AM, University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index (Final for July). The consensus is for a reading of 72.6.