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Here Comes Homebuilder Confidence...

Mamta Badkar   

Here Comes Homebuilder Confidence...
Stock Market1 min read

The NAHB housing market index (HMI) for September is out at 10 a.m. ET.

Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for the HMI, a gauge of homebuilder confidence, to decline to 58, from 59 the previous month.

Weaker new home sales and mortgage purchase applications are expected to filter through to homebuilder confidence.

A reading over 50 shows that more builders think sales conditions are good rather than poor.

Investors track this index because it is a leading indicator for housing starts. Though some like Paul Diggle at Capital Economics argue that NAHB has a "history of over-exuberance as a predictor of starts."

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