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By Marlene Y. Satter |
January 20, 2011
According to data released Thursday by Standard & Poor’s for the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index, health care costs are still rising, but their rate of increase has been slowing since May of 2010.
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By Marlene Y. Satter |
December 21, 2010
The month of November saw the first increase in mortgage defaults since December of 2009, according to data released on Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s and Experian.
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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
August 31, 2010
With this spring's tax credit still working its way through the housing market, the price of U.S. homes rose 1% in June for the third consecutive month, according to the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller index released Tuesday, August 31.
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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
June 29, 2010
In more destabilizing economic news, the Conference Board's closely watched consumer confidence survey plummeted in June while the S&P/Case-Shiller index showed that home prices rose in April--but probably only briefly--on the temporary tax credit.
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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
May 25, 2010
The key S&P/Case-Shiller measure of home prices released Tuesday, May 25, showed a drop of 3.2% in the first quarter of 2010, with prices for 13 cities in the 20-city index down in March.
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By Ron Pechtimaldjian, AdvisorOne |
April 27, 2010
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index of 20 cities showed Tuesday, April 27, that prices in February were down 0.1% from January on a seasonally adjusted basis.
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By Jenny Ivy |
July 28, 2009
Good news for boomer homeowners - while home prices are still relatively low, they aren't slumping. According to data through May of this year from Standard...
