Relatively speaking, last week featured solid if not particularly spectacular economic data on both housing and manufacturing.
Bounce in Housing, Economic Activity Wobbles: What We Learned During the Week of April 18-22
Economic activity remained slow in March, even though existing home sales bounced back.
Another GDP Revision, Housing & Manufacturing Slow: What We Learned During the Week of March 21-25
While GDP was a bit better than previously believed during the final days of 2015, housing and manufacturing data has the economy crawling early this year.
