August 2009 
There are 71 blog entries for August 2009.
Week Through 8/14/09 Chantilly homes related datapoints
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 5:01pm. 119 Views, 0 Comments.
Aug 11 – Companies slashed their worker’s hours in the second quarter, boosting the productivity in the workplace at an annualized rate of 6.4%. The fastest increase in six years.
Aug 12 – The trade deficit widened for the first time in nearly a year as increase prices was the primary reason.
Aug 13 – Retail sales fell 0.1% despite the boost that cash for clunkers gave the auto industry. Excluding autos, retail sales fell 0.6% v. an expectation increase of a 0.1%.
Aug 14 – Led by a resurgent automotive sector, industrial output was boosted in July for the first time since October.
Industrial production is one of four monthly indicators used to judge whether the economy is growing or is in a recession; the others are payrolls, incomes and business sales.
Week Through 8/7/09 Reston homes
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 8:40am. 115 Views, 0 Comments.
Aug 3 – Conditions for the nations manufacturers continued to get better in July. The ISM manufacturing index is the strongest since September.
Aug 5 – Orders for U.S. made factory goods were boosted in June, outperforming expectations.
Aug 5 – The service industry contracted for the 10th consecutive month in July. The experts were expecting a small increase in the non-manufacturing index.
Aug 7 – In another hopeful sign the recession is easing, the government estimated that fewer jobs were lost in July than in any other month in nearly a year. The unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% from 9.5%. While that is a small decrease, economists were expecting the rate to increase.
Since the recession began in December 2007, 6.7 million jobs have been lost. …
Week Through 7/31/09 Gainesville, VA homes
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 at 10:15am. 112 Views, 0 Comments.
Jul 27 – Sales of new homes were boosted by the biggest amount since November 2008, climbing 11% in June. The report was stronger than expected.
Jul 28 – Home prices went up on a monthly basis for the first time since July 2006, according to the national Case-Shiller home price index. On a month-to-month basis, prices in 13 of the 20 major cities went up an average of 0.5%. On a year-over-year basis, prices fell an average of 17.1% in these 20 selected cities through out the nation.
Jul 29 – Orders for durable goods sank 2.5% in June on weaker demand for autos, airplanes and computers. It was the largest drop since January.
Jul 31 – The second quarter Gross National Product fell at a 1% annualized rate in the second quarter, compared with an average…