The Masked Tulip Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Weren't the monthly housing figures from the Halifax, due out last Friday, due out today after being postponed from the end of last week? Are they out yet or is it going to be something after the markets close? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronpember Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Weren't the monthly housing figures from the Halifax, due out last Friday, due out today after being postponed from the end of last week? Are they out yet or is it going to be something after the markets close? http://forexfactory.com/calendar.php This site has tomorrow Tuesday - "tentative"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AteMoose Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 don't worry it will be before the BOE meeting ;p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervyn Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 If they stink- which they will- then it will be right before the BOE meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach1965 Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Halifax June Figures As you can see the page is blank. They have lost them! The clerk that collates the Index had them on two floppy disks on the 08:45 Kings Cross train up to Edinburgh. When he arrived at HBOS HQ he didn't have the disks! They are making up the figures as I speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest_Bosworth_* Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Pushed back to Wednesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thucydides Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 (edited) Weren't the monthly housing figures from the Halifax, due out last Friday, due out today after being postponed from the end of last week? Are they out yet or is it going to be something after the markets close? They seem to have disappeared into the same vortex that Nationwide's figures did, but for much longer. One theory is that when they finally come out of the space-time loop they are caught in and back into our dimension, they will be less scary than before they went in, and this delay is simply to allow Halifax to turn the data into something more acceptable to the public. They can't get away with this every month. The BOE theory is pretty solid as well, although it presumes the figures will be dreadful and the goal is to influence the MPC. One way or another we're talking about a bit of jiggery-pokery and the end is nigh. I add in edit that to me it doesn't matter what the figures are; their legitimacy is doubtful in my mind now because of the delay. What tells me all I need to know is that Nationwide and Halifax both have had to delay their reports by significant margins. Deeds, not data, tell us what we need to know. Edited July 8, 2008 by Thucydides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey shark Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Pushed back to Wednesday. Yes release them on the first day of the the MPC July meeting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 (edited) http://forexfactory.com/calendar.phpThis site has tomorrow Tuesday - "tentative"! And slipping. Now moved to Wednesday. Huge debate about seasoning clearly going on: "How about a little more salt." "Now that will just put up their blood pressure up." "Pepper?" "No, can't be done with the sneezing." "Extra hot chilli sauce?" "Definitely not, it leaves a burning taste in the wallet and will cause the market to evacuate its bowels too quickly." Edited July 8, 2008 by mikelivingstone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Halifax June FiguresAs you can see the page is blank. They have lost them! The clerk that collates the Index had them on two floppy disks on the 08:45 Kings Cross train up to Edinburgh. When he arrived at HBOS HQ he didn't have the disks! They are making up the figures as I speak. And in other news, a clerk from HBOS has been fired for losing the Halifax HPI data for June 2008. He claimed to have taken the figures out to play with at lunchtime but forgot to put them back... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House Or Home Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 This is ridiculous - they should get them released, to put us out of their misery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Perhaps they are hoping for a major bad news day and then put out then so no one notices??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radge Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 They've employed a new specialist to go over them before release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29929BlackTuesday Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I rang up HBOS and they said "We're waiting for someone to buy a house". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thucydides Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I rang up HBOS and they said "We're waiting for someone to buy a house". They can't delay them like this for much longer or they'll be out on the same day as the July figures. Unless they're planning on delaying July's by half a month as well. The bottom line is the damage is done, retail is craping itself, shares are being flushed away like there was no tomorrow, the crash is here. We are in recession already, and all that remains is for the figures to catch up and demonstrate this. Houses are worth at least 10% less than eight months ago and everyone knows *at least* another 20% is coming off. Delaying these figures is as ridiculous as a guy trying to push back a glacier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpiricalBear Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Yes release them on the first day of the the MPC July meeting I think they often manage to engineer these figures coming out when the MPC is meeting or just about to meet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach1965 Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Will they be published tomorrow or are they going to just skip June in the hope that nobody notices?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Maybe the dog ate them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervyn Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 They will come out on the day of the MPC meeting, which I understand is tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piece of paper Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 They will come out on the day of the MPC meeting, which I understand is tomorrow. No. The meeting was today. The outcome is announced tomorrow. p-o-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salamander Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Interesting link on this thread. Did Brillo "accidentally" let something slip, or was he making it up ? http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...showtopic=81647 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BROF Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Interesting link on this thread. Did Brillo "accidentally" let something slip, or was he making it up ?http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...showtopic=81647 fingers crossed. a figure like 11% is sure to illicit big, big headlines. there's no bouncing back from this now, whatever they try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Goldfish Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is releasing them this month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddles Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 fingers crossed. a figure like 11% is sure to illicit big, big headlines. there's no bouncing back from this now, whatever they try. Last month Martin Ellis predicted (and that has BIG implications on his employer's balance sheet - think writedowns) 9% YoY drop by the end of the year. I'm not really a conspiracy theory nutter, but I hardly think he's going to allow the following month's statistics to go out contradicting him by 2% and half a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is releasing them this month If the Halifax figures are really bad, we can trust in BBC Pravda to engineer some diversion in the form of Afghanistan/Iraq/Zambabwe/Global Warming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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