Unemployment Update
The December Unemployment (U-3 measure) rates are out, and all of them trended downwards from November. The national rate settled at 8.5%, Texas dropped to 7.8%, Austin-Round Rock MSA and Georgetown both slid to 6.3%. These rates are l among …
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Bond Index Update
The 25 year Revenue bond rate was up slightly to 4.77% from 4.74% last week. One month ago it was at 5.01% and one year ago it was 5.66%.…
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Inflation Update
The 12 month percentage change inflation figures are generally down from last month except for the national CCI rate which was up. The national CPI settled at 3.0%, PPI at 4.8%, MCI at 4.2%, and CCI at 3.6%. The regional …
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Bond Index Update
The 25 year Revenue bond rate took a significant dive to 4.74% from 4.93% last week. One moth ago it was at 5.01% and one year ago it was 5.66%. This makes the sharpest decline in the rate since the …
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Sales Tax Update
The Comptroller has published the estimate of sales tax collected by the Cities for the month of November as follows:
| City | Amount | % Change from Last Year |
| Georgetown | $1,127,431.51 | -4.35% |
| Round Rock | $5,308,670.00 | +17.20% |
| Cedar Park | $1,089,444.00 | +10.51% |
| Leander | $144,884.94 |
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Bond Index Update
The 25 year Revenue Bond rate continued to slide last week dropping to 4.93% from 4.97%. Last month it was 5.03% and one year ago this time it was 5.44%.…
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Bond Index Update
For the first time since the middle of November 2010 the 25 year Revenue Bond rate was fallen below 5%, resting at 4.97%, down from 5.01% a week ago. One month ago it was 5.09% and one year ago 5.44%.…
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Bond Index Update
The 25 year Revenue Bond Index was unchanged from the week prior at 5.01%. One month ago it was 5.06% and one year ago 5.42%…
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Bond Index Update
The 25 year Revenue Bond rate settled at 5.01%, down from 5.03%, last week. One month ago it was 5.09%, and one year ago 5.48%.…
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Inflation Update
The National CPI rate came down again in November from October making the the 12 month percent change 3.4%. The national PPI came down to 5.9%. Both the MCI and CCI held at 4.9% and 2.7% respectively. The Regional CPI …
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