By Borree Lam | The Atlantic
This past week, financial news has seen a variety of panicked headlines and wire photos of sad men as a volatile global market has put investors on edge. Previously optimistic analysts have decidedly changed their tune on whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will be raising interest rates in September: Earlier this month, 82 percent of economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected a rate hike in the near future. Now, some economists are expecting it to be delayed until early next year.
But there’s one aspect of the U.S. market seems to have stabilized since the downturn: Two reports this week showed that the housing market has been seeing healthy gains. The decisive recovery in the housing sector is one indicator that the overall U.S. economy is doing well.
