Weekly Economic Update



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|GIESTING FINANCIAL |

|WEEKLY UPDATE |

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| |October 26, 2015 |

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| |A MESSAGE FROM MARK… |

| |‘Tis this season – hang on tight, and enjoy each and every one of the upcoming holidays! |

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| |On a more serious note – and in the spirit of the season – I wanted to let everyone know about our upcoming Mission Trip |

| |to Racine, Wisconsin. My son Sam and I will be going with the Matthew 19:26 Mission to Racine the week of June 19th – |

|WEEKLY QUOTE |26th, 2016. During this trip we will be joining a Group Workcamp to help repair and transform homes of those in need. My |

| |family and I have been part of these Mission Trips before and I can tell you that they truly are life changing – both for |

|“Rules too soft are seldomly |those who participate and those who benefit from our work. |

|followed; rules too harsh are | |

|seldomly executed.” |Our first fundraiser for this trip is a Poinsettia and Wreath Sale. Red Poinsettias are $12.00 each, and 20” wreaths with |

| |mixed live greens and pine cones are only $20.00. For your convenience, I’ve attached an Order Form to this email if you |

|- Ben Franklin |are interested in supporting our trip. You can drop off the form at our office or simply call our office to place your |

| |order and drop off a check before Nov 20. 20th. You can pick-up your order at the Knights of St John Hall on Dec 2, 3-6pm,|

| |or we can have them at our office for pickup, whichever is easiest for you. Just let us know when you place your order. |

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| |EXISTING HOME SALES ACCELERATE |

|WEEKLY TIP |The National Association of Realtors measured a 4.7% gain in residential resales for September, and the annualized sales |

| |pace of 5.55 million units was the second best seen since February 2007. Over the past 12 months, existing home sales are |

|In retirement, one of your |up 8.8% with the average sale price up 6.1% (September’s median sale price was $221,900).1 |

|goals should be to grow your | |

|assets faster than inflation | |

|devalues them. You must |MORE HOUSING STARTS IN SEPTEMBER |

|sustain your purchasing power.|Last month saw a 6.5% increase in groundbreaking according to the Census Bureau. That brought the 12-month increase in |

| |housing starts to 17.5%. The rate of building permits issued fell by 5.0% in September, but that still left a 4.7% yearly |

| |gain.2 |

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| |OIL & GOLD RETREAT |

|WEEKLY RIDDLE |On the COMEX, gold settled at $1,162.80 Friday, marking a 1.7% weekly loss. WTI crude dropped 5.6% last week, settling |

| |Friday at $44.60 on the NYMEX.3 |

|Robert will paint unit numbers| |

|on 100 storage units today. In| |

|the course of painting a |S&P TURNS POSITIVE YTD; NASDAQ BACK ABOVE 5,000 |

|number from 1 to 100 on the |More easing by China’s central bank and strong earnings from tech giants helped equities. The Nasdaq rose 2.97% for the |

|door of each unit, how many |week to a Friday close of 5,031.86. The Dow rose 2.50% on the week to 17,646.70, the S&P 500 2.07% to 2,075.15.3,4 |

|times will he have to paint | |

|the numeral 3 today? |THIS WEEK: September new home sales figures arrive Monday, plus earnings from Cheesecake Factory, MGM Resorts and Xerox. |

| |Tuesday brings September’s durable goods report, August’s Case-Shiller home price index, the latest Conference Board |

| |consumer confidence index and earnings from Airgas, Anadarko Petroleum, Alibaba, Apple, Big 5, Bristol-Myers Squibb, |

| |Coach, Comcast, Corning, Cummins, Express Scripts, Ford Motor Co., Edison International, JetBlue, Lexmark, Macerich, |

| |Magellan Health, Merck, NCR, Panera, Pfizer, Revlon, Spirit Airlines, T-Mobile, Twitter and Waste Management. A new |

|Last week’s riddle: |Federal Reserve policy statement appears Wednesday plus earnings from Amgen, Anthem, AutoNation, Buffalo Wild Wings, |

|Until it is measured it is not|Ferrari, General Dynamics, Garmin, GoPro, IMAX, Hanesbrands, HealthSouth, Hershey, Hilton Worldwide, LifeLock, Marriott, |

|accurately known, yet you may |PG&E, Norfolk Southern, O’Reilly, Public Storage, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Tesoro, Valero, Western Digital and Yelp. |

|miss it when it has flown. |Thursday offers the first estimate of Q3 GDP, a new initial claims report, and earnings from Aetna, Altria, Baidu, |

|What is it? |Coca-Cola, ConocoPhillips, Electronic Arts, Expedia, Fluor, LinkedIn, Live Nation, MasterCard, Starbucks, |

| |Sherwin-Williams, Time Warner Cable, Virgin America and Western Union. Friday, new personal spending figures and October’s|

| |final University of Michigan consumer sentiment index are out, plus earnings from Chevron, Colgate-Palmolive, CVS Health, |

| |ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Seagate and Weyerhaeuser. |

|Last week’s answer: | |

|Time. |% CHANGE |

| |Y-T-D |

| |1-YR CHG |

| |5-YR AVG |

| |10-YR AVG |

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| |DJIA |

| |-0.99 |

| |+5.81 |

| |+11.70 |

| |+6.99 |

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| |NASDAQ |

|[pic] |+6.25 |

| |+13.00 |

| |+20.59 |

| |+13.78 |

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| |S&P 500 |

| |+0.79 |

| |+6.37 |

| |+15.08 |

| |+7.30 |

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| |REAL YIELD |

| |10/23 RATE |

| |1 YR AGO |

| |5 YRS AGO |

| |10 YRS AGO |

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| |10 YR TIPS |

| |0.58% |

| |0.38% |

| |0.50% |

| |1.93% |

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| |Sources: , , - 10/23/155,6,7,8 |

| |Indices are unmanaged, do not incur fees or expenses, and cannot be invested into directly. These returns do not include |

| |dividends. 10-year TIPS real yield = projected return at maturity given expected inflation. |

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