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...Mortgage rates have risen sharply in recent months, rising from 6.48 per cent at the start of the year to a 23-year high of 7.79 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
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...Yet since the great financial crisis, fears of ecommerce disruption to the grocery business have kept construction in the retail sector subdued....
...The MAC will issue its final report in the autumn....
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...The MAC may be cautious about adding lower-skilled roles to the shortage list, however, given recent experience in other sectors....
...The decline in demand has already sent homebuilder sentiment down to historically low levels and has cooled new home construction....
...The average 30-year mortgage rate has fallen from its November peak of 7.08 per cent to 6.12 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
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...The November annualised new construction rate was the second lowest since the same month last year....
...Business leaders have been pressing the government to help them tackle labour shortages in sectors ranging from agriculture and food processing to construction and logistics by allowing them to hire more...
...The rate of US new home construction fell to a five-month low as higher mortgage rates weaken demand....
...Other earnings: Drugmaker Pfizer, carmaker General Motors, parcel service UPS and construction machinery manufacturer Caterpillar report before the opening bell....
...The 30 year mortgage rate jumped to 6.9 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac, increasing the average monthly mortgage payment on an already expensive home....
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...To make matters worse, Apple recently dropped Intel in its Macs in favour of its own silicon chip designs, while AMD has taken advantage of TSMC’s superior manufacturing to claim an estimated 35 per cent...
...Freddie Mac estimates that the US is short of 3.8mn units of housing, which will require more building....
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