Homebuilder confidence dropped two points to 42. The latest FNC Residential Price Index points to a continued rise in housing prices. And gold wasn’t so golden on Monday, as the price saw the steepest one-day drop in percentage terms for the metal in about 30 years. Wall Street followed suit, with its largest drop in months on Monday.

Consumers pulled back their spending in March. Housing inventories saw an uptick month over month. And consumer sentiment has slightly decreased in April.

Total consumer credit was up at an annualized rate of 7.8 percent in February, compared with a 5.5 percent increase in January. Worldwide shipments of PCs in the first quarter of 2013 were down almost 14 percent compared to last year. And unemployment claims dropped from the previous week by 42,000.

Some members of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee brought up during its March meeting phasing out QE3 sooner rather than at an unspecified date. The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported that for the first time in years, non-distressed sales have accounted for more than half of all local home sales so far in 2013. And mortgage delinquencies are still on a downward trend.