The pace of new home sales fell to a near-record low in October, the Census Bureau just reported.
Is said just 283,000 units (that's an annualized rate) were sold, down 8.1% from September. The all-time low since Census started keeping such records in 1963: The 275,000 rate in August.
Earlier, we passed along word on the day's other economic data.
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