Banks Getting Rid of Bad CRE Loans: Dutch Megabank ING Dumps One of the Largest Office Properties in San Francisco by Wolf Richter • Jun 5, 2025 • 30 Comments The two-tower property sold at a 75% discount. ING’s loss was much smaller. Investors took a bigger loss.
Demand in the Housing Market Just Got Even Worse, as Supply Piles Up by Wolf Richter • Jun 4, 2025 • 147 Comments Waiting for lower prices, higher incomes, and lower rates.
Hiring in the Private Sector Surges, Despite All Moaning & Groaning about the Economy or Whatever by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2025 • 93 Comments Layoffs & discharges as share of payrolls remain historically low: But the immense pandemic-era churn in the labor market has slowed.
Revenues from Tariffs Spiked to $23 Billion in May, up by 168% in 3 Months by Wolf Richter • Jun 2, 2025 • 88 Comments It’s not nothing: At this pace, tariffs would raise receipts from corporate taxes by 39%, but would make only a dent into the huge US deficit.
S&P’s US Manufacturing PMI Shows “Solid” Growth Powered by Jump in Domestic New Orders. Canada & Mexico PMIs Tank by Wolf Richter • Jun 2, 2025 • 18 Comments But the ISM Manufacturing PMI for the US shows contraction on declining new orders. The contradicting PMIs add to the confusing “soft data.”
Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Re-Spikes to 10.6%, to Worst Levels of the Financial Crisis Meltdown by Wolf Richter • May 31, 2025 • 74 Comments It’s the older office towers that get in trouble amid a flight to quality.
How Financial Services, a Market Plunge in April, and a Historic Cliff-Dive by Recreation Services Messed with PCE Inflation Today. But a Snap-Back Cometh by Wolf Richter • May 30, 2025 • 55 Comments Outside of two heroes that pushed down the overall indices, there isn’t anything benign about this PCE inflation data.
US Government Interest Payments to Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q1 2025 by Wolf Richter • May 29, 2025 • 93 Comments Update on an ugly situation.
Pending Home Sales Plunge in All Regions, Inventories Surge. In the West & South, Collapsed Sales Meet Spiking Inventories by Wolf Richter • May 29, 2025 • 67 Comments Adios, “spring selling season.”
How the ECB’s Mark-to-Market of its Gold Holdings to €1 Trillion and €3.1 Trillion in QT Affect its Balance Sheet by Wolf Richter • May 28, 2025 • 46 Comments Under QT, the ECB shed €3.1 trillion in bonds and loans. Separately, it wrote up its gold assets by €409 billion, or by 68%, to reflect soaring gold prices.
