The Federal Reserve reported that total consumer credit was up at an annualized rate of 7.8 percent in February, compared with a 5.5 percent increase in January.

The Federal Reserve released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, and while it didn’t reveal any dramatic fractiousness within the Central Bank, it seems that some members of the committee brought up phasing out QE3 sooner rather than at no specific point in time.

According to the JOLTS report the number of U.S. job openings at the end of February was 3.9 million, up from 3.6 million January.

Consumers might still be a little leery about the broader economic recovery, but at least they’re fairly confident in the housing recovery.

March’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a disappointment for a number of reasons, beyond mere lackluster U.S. job growth for the month itself.

The U.S. economy created only 88,000 jobs in March, which was a drop from February.

Apartment vacancies nationwide continued to shrink in the first quarter of 2013, according to a report by Reis Inc.

Fannie Mae, practically given up for dead during the abyss of the Great Recession, showed signs of life in 2012.

The Census Bureau reported on Monday that U.S. construction spending increased 1.2 percent in February compared with January, coming in at an annualized rate of $885.1 billion for the month. That’s 7.9 percent more than during February 2012.