U.S. Existing Home Sales

Latest Release

May 24, 2017

Actual

5.57M

Forecast

5.65M

5.70M

Existing Home Sales measures the change in the annualized number of existing residential buildings that were sold during the previous month. This report helps to gauge the strength of the U.S. housing market and is a key indicator of overall economic strength.

A higher than expected reading should be taken as positive/bullish for the USD, while a lower than expected reading should be taken as negative/bearish for the USD.

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Currency: USD

Source: National Association of Realto...

Release Date	Time	Actual	Forecast	Previous
May 24, 2017 (Apr)	10:00	5.57M	5.65M	5.70M
Apr 21, 2017 (Mar)	10:00	5.71M	5.60M	5.47M
Mar 22, 2017 (Feb)	10:00	5.48M	5.57M	5.69M
Feb 22, 2017 (Jan)	11:00	5.69M	5.54M	5.51M
Jan 24, 2017 (Dec)	11:00	5.49M	5.52M	5.65M
Dec 21, 2016 (Nov)	11:00	5.61M	5.50M	5.57M

News

Wall St edges higher ahead of Fed minutes By Investing.com - 17 hours ago

Investing.com - U.S. stocks edge higher Wednesday ahead of the release of the latest FOMC meeting minutes.The DJI was up 0.18% at 10:45 ET. The S&P 500 added 0.10%.The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite ...

U.S. April existing home sales fall more than expected By Investing.com - 18 hours ago

Investing.com - U.S. existing home sales fell more than expected in April.Existing home sales fell 2.3% last month from March to 5.57 mn units, the National Association of Realtors said.Analysts had ...

U.S. existing home sales drop 2.3% to 5.57 million in April By Investing.com - 18 hours ago

Investing.com - U.S. existing home sales fell more than expected in April, but remained in territory consistent with a healthy housing market, industry data showed on Wednesday. The National ...

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Existing-Home Sales: April Headline Number Down 2.3% Month-Over-Month By Jill Mislinski - 3 hours ago

This morning's release of the April Existing-Home Sales declined from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.57 million units. The March count was downwardly revised from 5.71 ...

USD/JPY – Yen Drifting As Markets Look For Rate Clues From Fed Minutes By Kenny Fisher - 3 hours ago

USD/JPY continues to show little movement this week, as the pair drifts in the Wednesday session. In North American trade, the pair is trading at the 112 level. On the release front, US Existing Home ...

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Rajveer Ghandi Mar 22, 2017 1:43PM GMT

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sell or buy ? will usdcad GO DOWN

yunus piran Jan 24, 2017 2:19PM GMT

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usd up or down???????

yonimile ruiz Oct 21, 2015 9:56PM GMT

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usd is going ( + )

irshad ahmad Jan 23, 2015 12:42PM GMT

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usd up or down???????

Travis Best Dec 20, 2014 8:12PM GMT

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Which currency pair will be affected the most by this??

kiran. sg Jan 23, 2015 6:00AM GMT

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i think eurusd will reach 1.20, 1.22 in coming months because of gap in ecb balance sheet. (5th wave)

John Walker Oct 21, 2014 2:18PM GMT

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Why th Gold/Ausie don't seem to care?

Alex Axa Oct 21, 2014 2:05PM GMT

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Tan and George weel done :)

Korey Rice Oct 21, 2014 2:03PM GMT

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up towards 108 long

Deepak Trader Oct 21, 2014 2:00PM GMT

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sell

George Berberashvili Oct 21, 2014 1:56PM GMT

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+ for usd

M Faizan Faizan Oct 21, 2014 2:38PM GMT

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Hello George... AUD Up or Down.... any option

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