Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

St Louis Foreclosures Rose In 3rd Quarter of 2010

Saturday, February 5th, 2011


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Principal Reduction and In-House Financing News: Foreclosures Climbed Higher In The Third Quarter of 2010
St Louis Home Mortgage and Commercial Loans | Customer Financing and Principal Reduction Program | Foreclosure Stop
314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia, Consumer Finance Consultant


Foreclosure filings increased from last year in 133 of 206 metropolitan statistical areas tracked in the third quarter, or 65 percent, according to RealtyTrac.

The Seattle area had the highest increase. There, foreclosure filings, which include notices of default, pending cases, notices of foreclosure sale and repossessions, increased (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Broker: Economy Makes Small Improvements

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Finance and Loan Audit News: The Economy Is Slowly “Muddling Along”
Home Mortgage and Commercial Loans | Principal Reduction Program |
877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia


The Commerce Department said today that the economy expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter.

It marked an improvement from the feeble 1.7 percent growth in the April-June quarter according to St Louis mortgage brokers.

Consumers helped boost last quarter’s economic growth with 2.6 percent growth in spending.

That was better than the second (more…)

Home Mortgage St Louis: Jobless Claims Down

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Finance and Loan Audit News: Jobless Claims Slightly Down But Not As Low As Expected
Home Mortgage and Commercial Loans | Principal Reduction Program |
877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia


The number of jobless claims may be down but unemployment rates are still close to an average 10 percent across the nation.

There were 434,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended October 23, down 21,000 from a (more…)

Loan St Louis: Hiring Outlook Slightly Up

Monday, January 31st, 2011


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Loan Modification and Finance News: The Nation’s Hiring Outlook Slightly Improved For Now
Home Mortgage and Commercial Loans | Principal Reduction

877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia


During its October 2010 industry survey, the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) said that employment conditions slightly improved in the third quarter to the highest level since the start of the 2008-2009 recession.

Looking ahead, expectations for hiring over the next 6 months rose to the highest level since 2006, according to the survey.

A little over half of the economists in the October survey expect gross domestic product, the broadest measure of activity, to expand by more than 2 percent (more…)

St Louis Home Mortgage: Unemployment Rises Again

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Finance News: Jobless Claims On The Rise
Home Mortgage and Commercial Loans | Principal Reductions

877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia


There were 462,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended October 9, up 13,000 from an upwardly revised 449,000 the previous week, according to the Labor Department’s weekly report.

St Louis finance experts said economists surveyed by Briefing.com were expecting 450,000 new claims.

The 4-week moving average of initial claims which is a number that tries to smooth out week-to-week (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Refinancing: Home Sales Up

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

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St Louis Finance News: Pending Home Sales Up?
Residential and Commercial Loans | 314-334-0210


The National Association of Realtors’ index of pending home sales of previously occupied homes is expected to show an increase to 81.4, according to the average forecast of economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

That would be up 2.5 percent from a reading of 79.4 in July according to St Louis mortgage refinancing experts.

The report was released showing the (more…)

St Louis Home Loans: Jobless Claims Lower

Monday, December 27th, 2010


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Finance News: Jobless Claims Slightly Lower
Residential and Commercial Loans | 314-334-0210


There were 453,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ending September 18th, down 16,000 from an upwardly revised 469,000 the previous week, according to the Labor Department’s weekly report.

Economists surveyed by Briefing.com were expecting 457,000 new claims.

The 4-week moving average of (more…)

St Louis Loans: Consumer Confidence Way Down

Friday, December 24th, 2010


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St Louis Finance News: Consumer Confidence Decreasing
Residential and Commercial Loans | 314-334-0210


The Consumer Confidence Index fell to 48.5 in September which is the lowest level in 7 months and down from August’s negatively revised level of 53.2, the (more…)

St Louis Home Mortgage: Surge In Home Sales Short-Lived

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010


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St Louis Finance News: Will The Home Surge Peter Out?
Residential and Commercial Loans | 314-334-0210


Housing statistics report that for the month of August, home sales increased by 7.6 percent after plummeting in July.

But activity is still low across the nation and could fall even further obviously taking prices with it.

Most blame the expiration of the (more…)

St Louis Home Loans: Unemployment Up

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010


St Louis Mortgage and Real Estate News –

St Louis Finance News: Unemployment Is Rising
Residential and Commercial Loans | 314-334-0210


The numbers are speaking loud and clear about this stagnant, slow growing economy.

According to the United States Labor Department, twenty-seven states reported unemployment rate increases in August.

On the other hand, 13 states registered (more…)