By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor The economy might be a little wobby, but at least construction spending is still rising. The Census Bureau reported on Monday that U.S. construction spending during September came in at an annualized rate of $1.094 trillion, or 0.6 percent above the revised August rate. The September 2015 figure is also 14.1 percent above the September 2014 rate. Both private and public construction spending were up for the month: increases of 0.6 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively. For the year, private construction spending was up 16 percent and public spending rose 9.4 percent. Most categories of…

CBRE’s Americas chief economist Jeffrey Havsy has coined a trigger phrase to describe the commercial real estate markets’s current state.

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The Federal Reserve will be releasing the FOMC minutes for the meeting of September 16-17, when the central bank declined to edge interest rates up even a pittance, but the minutes are unlikely to offer an useful information about future actions.

By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor The U.S. economy created a net of 142,000 jobs in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. That’s a thoroughly mediocre report, and probably not going to help influence the Fed to raise interest rates later this year. Not only that, the change in total payroll employment for July was revised downward from a gain of 245,000  to 223,000, while the change for August was also revised downward from 173,000 to 136,000 — an unusual circumstance, since monthly numbers are more often than not revised upward. With these revisions, employment gains in…

The federal government didn’t shut down with the coming of Oct. 1, so the Bureau of Labor Statistics will be able to do its important job on Friday of telling the country and the world about the condition of the U.S. employment market.

Forbes’ 400 wealthiest Americans list is out and 29 of them are tied to real estate.