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Seven Consecutive Downward Reivisions To New Home Sales Data Place Serious Doubts On Report Accuracy

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

You will pardon us if we don’t “buy” the latest attempt by the Census Department to telegraph housing euphoria with the just reported number of 481K new December home sales, a surge of 11.6% compared to November, an increase which was expected by the consensus to be only  2.7%. In fact, the 481K print is now the “highest” since June of 2008.

The reason for our disbelief? Because as we have been tracking for the past 6, and now 7 months, every single such euphoric print since May of 2014 has been revised substantially lower after the fact (and after the headline-scanning algos promptly gobbled up stocks on the initial “beat”), and sure enough, the November print of 438K, was also just “revised” downward to 431K.

Putting today’s “highest in 7 years” new home sales print in context: consider that in May 2014 the same data series was originally reported at 504K… only to be revised to 458K!

In other words, there has now been 7 consecutive downward revision to the New Home Sales data!

As we said: forgive us, but we will once again refrain from drinking the Department of Truth’s cool aid.

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