Quikrete Industry Dashboard: Starts stats
Residential-construction numbers lead the latest update.
The latest update of the Quikrete Industry Dashboard shows a 6.3% month-to-month gain in the pace of total housing starts. Single-family starts also increased at the same rate.
Year over year, total starts surged nearly 30% in June.
Elsewhere on the Quikrete Industry Dashboard, existing home sales, as measured by the National Association of Realtors, edged upward 1.4% in June.
Industry stocks are active in the upper-right quadrant of the Stock Watch, reflecting year-over-year and month to month growth for the majority of major companies.
Coming next: The Conference Board will release the closely watched Consumer Confidence Index July 27.
