{"id":6300,"date":"2009-12-02T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2016-09-20T05:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:33:44","slug":"fed-beige-book-color-coded-for-your-reading-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/fed-beige-book-color-coded-for-your-reading-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Beige Book: Color Coded for Your Reading Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:00pm, the Fed Beige Book was released. It was, as usual, mixed.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights are color coded &#8211; (Red (Negative), Green(Positive), Black (Neutral)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some Fed Banks Said Commercial Real Estate Deteriorated Further<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fed Banks Said New Residential Construction Generally `Weak&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some Fed Banks Said Retailers More Optimistic Before Holidays<!--more--><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Most Fed Banks Said Retailers Held Leaner Inventories<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fed Banks Said Automobile Sales &#8216;Generally Improved&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fed Banks Reported &#8216;Continued Tight Credit Standards&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fed Banks Said Loan Demand Was &#8216;Steady To Weaker&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Home Prices Were Flat Or Declining Modestly In Most Fed Region<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Most Fed Banks Reported Some Pickup In Home Sales<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fed Banks Said Manufacturing `Steady To Moderately Improving&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fed Banks Said Consumer Spending `Picked Up Moderately&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fed Banks Said Economic Conditions `Improved Modestly&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Commercial Delinquency Rate &#8211; Chart shows a drop in 60d and 90d last month. Some of that is the preferred treatment that banks are providing in an effort to keep from foreclosure. During the 2nd half of 2010, it is expected that commercial delinquencies will hit its highest level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Commercial-Delinq-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6301 aligncenter\" title=\"Commercial Delinq\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Commercial-Delinq-1.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial Delinq\" width=\"614\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disclosure: <a title=\"Horowitz &amp; Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horowitzandcompany.com\">Horowitz &amp; Company<\/a> clients may hold positions of securities mentioned as of the date published.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:00pm, the Fed Beige Book was released. It was, as usual, mixed. The highlights are color coded &#8211; (Red (Negative), Green(Positive), Black (Neutral)&#8230; Some Fed Banks Said Commercial Real Estate Deteriorated Further Fed Banks Said New Residential Construction Generally `Weak&#8217; Some Fed Banks Said Retailers More Optimistic Before Holidays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}