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March housing starts -0.3% to 1.139m SAAR,..>

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US DATA: March housing starts -0.3% to 1.139m SAAR, below the 1.230m 
rate expected by MNI and 1.228m expected by the Bloomberg consensus. 
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- Feb starts rev down to 1.142m from 1.162m, Jan starts rev up to 1.298m 
from 1.273m. 
- Starts by region were generally down. Starts in the South -7.2%, the 
Midwest -17.6%, and the Northeast -4.4%, but +31.4% in the West. 
1-family starts -0.4%, while multi-family starts were flat. 
- Building permits -1.7% to 1.269m SAAR vs 1.296m expected by an MNI 
survey and 1.300m SAAR expected by the Bloomberg consensus. 1-family 
-1.1%, while multi-family -2.7%. 
- Housing completions -1.9% to 1.313m SAAR.

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