by Michael Pakko | Nov 27, 2012
A new report from the Arkansas Realtors Association shows October home sales up 5.9% from the previous year. Home sales typically trend downward during the autumn months of the year, but the pace of the decline can differ from year to year. As shown in the chart...
by Michael Pakko | Nov 20, 2012
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Workforce Services show the Arkansas unemployment rate unchanged in October. The reported uptick from 7.1% to 7.2% was essentially a rounding error (literally — taken to the next decimal place,...
by Michael Pakko | Nov 5, 2012
With the release of the General Revenue Report for October, we now have enough information to calculate preliminary figures for Arkansas Taxable Sales (ATS) for the third quarter of 2012. The sales tax collection figures dropped fairly sharply in June, and have shown...
by Michael Pakko | Nov 2, 2012
A new report on employment and unemployment in the nation’s metropolitan areas came out earlier this week. It showed that unemployment rates were down from a year earlier in 345 of the 372 metro areas. In Arkansas, the changes from a year ago ranged from -0.8%...
by Michael Pakko | Nov 2, 2012
On Monday–just one day before the Arkansas Economic Forecast Conference–the Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA) released home sales data for September. Total sales for the month, 1971, differed from the projection embedded in the Arkansas forecast by...
