{"id":9528,"date":"2018-05-15T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=b275d725e65186af4926ce88dba23f64"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:02:52","slug":"builder-optimisms-bounces-in-may-after-4-month-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/builder-optimisms-bounces-in-may-after-4-month-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Builder optimisms bounces in May after 4 month slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. homebuilders are feeling more confident about their sales prospects, reflecting strong demand for newly built homes with existing homes in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Home Builders\/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Tuesday rose two points to 70 this month. That&#8217;s up from a revised reading of 68 in April.<\/p>\n<p>That ends a four-month slide for builders.<\/p>\n<p>Any reading above 50 indicates more builders see sales conditions as good rather than poor. The index has remained above 60 since September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>May&#8217;s index exceeded expectations for a reading of 69, according to FactSet.<\/p>\n<p>Builders&#8217; view of current sales conditions rose two points to 76 this month. The outlook for sales over the next six months held at 77. A measure of buyer traffic held steady at 51.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. homebuilders are feeling more confident about their sales prospects, reflecting strong demand for newly built homes with existing homes in short supply. The National Association of Home Builders\/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Tuesday rose two points to 70 this month. That&rsquo;s up from a revised reading of 68 in April. That ends a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9529,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}