{"id":313058,"date":"2026-10-24T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313058\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:38:10","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-10-23-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313058\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 10\/23\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housing sales down<\/p>\n<p>For the third consecutive month, U.S. housing sales fell below last year\u2019s level in September. More concerning, pending sales\u2014those expected to close in the coming months\u2014were more than 11% below last year\u2019s level.<br \/>In the Valley, September home sales fell 6% below last year\u2019s level while pending sales fell 8%.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 10\/23\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housing sales down For the third consecutive month, U.S. housing sales fell below last year\u2019s level in September.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-313058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}