New US Home Construction Declines in December

The US Commerce Department announced this morning that construction of new homes for the month of December fell by 4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 557,000 from an upwardly revised 580,000. The results were lower than the 580,000 forecast by economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

Associated Press

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