How Work-from-Home Impacts Commercial Real Estate & Cities. Can Airlines Survive? Can We Now Get Deals on New Cars? by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2020 • 107 Comments Wolf Richter on the HoweStreet.com podcast.
“Pent-up Supply” Floods San Francisco Housing Market, Most Since Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2020 • 187 Comments Sellers are suddenly coming out of the woodwork. Housing market is having a moment.
“Uneven” Freight Recovery after New Covid Outbreaks: Daily Truck Trips Already Fell 10% Since June 25 by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2020 • 143 Comments Was June as Good as It’s Going to Get in the Pandemic Era?
32 Million People on State & Federal Unemployment, 2nd Highest Ever: Week 17 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse by Wolf Richter • Jul 16, 2020 • 219 Comments Torrent of 2.4 million new claims under state & federal programs. PUA claims by gig workers now 45% of total unemployment. Many people are hired back, but many are newly laid off. Labor market recovery remains hard to discern.
Work-from-Home & Covid Resurgence Maul Office Occupancy by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2020 • 132 Comments There is no recovery for office space. The number of people going to the office has declined over the past four weeks.
It Starts: Mortgage Delinquencies Suddenly Soar at Record Pace by Wolf Richter • Jul 14, 2020 • 249 Comments And this is just for the very beginning of the Pandemic’s impact on housing.
Delta’s Passenger Revenue -94%. How it Plans to Stay Alive till “Demand Returns.” Confirms United’s Warning About Newly Waning Demand by Wolf Richter • Jul 14, 2020 • 90 Comments Shrinkage in survival mode instead of V-shaped recovery. “It will be more than two years before we see a sustainable recovery”: CEO.
Subprime Auto-Loan Delinquencies, After April Fiasco, Miraculously Healed by “Forbearance” & Stimulus Money by Wolf Richter • Jul 13, 2020 • 119 Comments “Extend and pretend” works wonders for a little while. But with auto loans, it gets dicey in a hurry. And then what?
Moving the Iron amid Sagging Demand: Tesla Cuts Price of Model Y, after Cutting Prices of Model 3, S & X, as Other Automakers Offer Record Incentives. by Wolf Richter • Jul 13, 2020 • 163 Comments The time for deals on new vehicles has arrived.
“Wild Ride to Nowhere”: APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB Soar to New High. Rest of Stock Market is a Dud, Has Been for Years by Wolf Richter • Jul 11, 2020 • 220 Comments The market has come to totally depend on the “Giant 5.” A scary out-of-whack weight on the way down.