Morning Market Report 10/29/2014

The KUIK Morning Market Report for Wednesday, October 29:
Markets are mixed.
Index Direction Change Units Last Time Change
Dow Up                     35 points           17,040 7:14 AM
S&P500 Up 0.1% percent             1,987             2.30
Nasdaq Composite Down -0.4% percent             4,546           (18.11)
30 Year Treasury Up                       3 Basis Points               3.09 Annual Yield
The Census Bureau reports that the homeownership rate, the share of occupied homes in which owners live, fell to 64.4% in the third quarter.  That’s the lowest since 1994, and down almost 1% from the third quarter of 2013. With homeownership down, rental vacancies hit the lowest level since the mid-1990s. Rents have moving higher, with annual housing inflationspeeding up tp the fastest pace since 2008.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed to continue spending abundantly on new technologies in the coming years. The social network’s revenue rose 59% to $3.2 billion in the third quarter as it continues to make gains in mobile advertising at the expense of Google. Costs rose 41% during a quarter in which Facebook added  1,200 new employees, most of them through acquisitions including the $19 billion deal for messaging app WhatsApp and a $2 billion purchase of virtual-reality headset maker Oculus Rift.
Serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for 1360 KUIK.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/homeownership-drops-to-two-decade-low-2014-10-29
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-vows-aggressive-spending-2014-10-29?link=MW_Nav_NV
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