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10:05 AM ET, May 31, 2007 - 10 minutes ago
U.S. OFHEO home price index up 4.3% year-on-year
U.S. Q1 OFHEO home price index up 0.5%

U.S. home prices rise at slowest pace in 10 years
By Rex Nutting Last Update: 10:11 AM ET May 31, 2007

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. home prices rose 0.5% in the first quarter of the year compared with the fourth quarter, the slowest price gain in 10 years, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight reported Thursday. The OFHEO price index is up 4.3% compared with the first quarter of 2006. Prices fell in seven states from the fourth quarter to the first, including Florida and California. Prices fell year-over-year in Massachusetts and Michigan. The biggest year-over-year price gains were recorded in the West, with Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Washington at the top. Forty-six of the 285 cities recorded falling prices over the past year.

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10:00 AM ET, May 31, 2007 - 12 minutes ago
U.S. March construction spending revised to 0.6%
U.S. April private construction spending falls 0.1%
U.S. April private residential construction outlays dn 1.0%
U.S. April construction spending rises 0.1%

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U.S. April construction spending rises 0.1%
Outlays on private residential projects continue to slide
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch
Last Update: 10:04 AM ET May 31, 2007


WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Spending on U.S. construction projects rose 0.1% in April as a jump in private nonresidential construction outlays offset a drop in spending on residential projects.
Spending on private residential construction projects fell by 1.0% for the second consecutive month, the Commerce Department reported. Meanwhile, private nonresidential construction spending climbed by 1.5% in April, the government said.
Construction spending in March was revised to rise upward, by 0.6%, from a previously estimated gain of 0.2%.
Spending on private residential construction is down 14.4% since April 2006. In April, spending on private residential construction fell to an annual rate of $563.0 billion.
Total construction spending rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.2 trillion in April. Overall construction spending is down 2% since April 2006.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had predicted construction spending would be flat in April.
Total private construction outlays fell by 0.1% in April, the lowest since January.
Public construction spending rose by 0.7%.
State and local construction outlays climbed by 0.7%.
Spending on federal construction projects, meanwhile, rose by 0.7% in April. It's the highest since January.


April help-wanted advertising index at 29 vs 34 last year
April help-wanted advertising index unchanged at 29

By Ruth Mantell Last Update: 10:00 AM ET May 31, 2007
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The volume of help-wanted ads in major U.S. newspapers was unchanged in April, the Conference Board said Thursday. The help-wanted index stayed at 29 in April; it was 34 a year earlier. Data suggests that the labor market may continue to open new jobs at a pace of 120,000 to 130,000 per month this summer, about the same pace as in the spring, according to Ken Goldstein, a labor economist with the Conference Board. In the last three months, help-wanted advertising declined in seven of the nine U.S. regions, with the steepest declines in the East South Central, New England, East North Central and South Atlantic regions.