Housing starts, the change in the number of new residential buildings that began construction, rose 3% from May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.35 million in June, according to a ...

The numbers: Construction of new U.S. homes rose 3% in June as builders scaled up new projects. Housing starts rose to a 1.35 million annual pace from 1.31 million in May, the government said ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, but stayed at levels consistent ...

U.S. housing starts rose in June, indicating increased optimism in the market that mortgage rates will cool. Here are the main takeaways from the Commerce Department's report released Wednesday.

The number of housing starts ticked up in August as mortgage ... factors pushing down mortgage rates. New home sales rose 10.6% from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 739,000 in ...

U.S. Treasury yields rose. Economists estimated that residential ... more soared 22.0% to a rate of 360,000 units in June. Overall housing starts advanced 3.0% to a rate of 1.353 million units.