(Sharecast News) - US housing starts and building permits both softened in May, according to the Census Bureau, pointing to a cooler pace of homebuilding activity.
Housing starts dropped 15.4% to an annual rate of 1.17m, well below April's revised 1.39m reading and down 8.7% year-on-year. Single‑family starts slipped to 882,000,...

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