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Housing Starts (May)

Despite the drop back in housing starts in May, the recent data show that homebuilders’ confidence in the housing recovery is growing. Coupled with mounting evidence of a second-quarter rebound in the wider economy, this suggests that starts will resume their upward trend soon.

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