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Washington, DC, April 25, 2024—In the week ending April 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 207,000, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 212,000, according to the Department of Labor.
Phoenix, AZ, April 25, 2024—Phoenix-based Healthy Home Flooring has racked up 18 complaints with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, so, the agency has put them out of business by revoking their license, reports Arizona’s Family.
Portsmouth, NH April 24, 2024-At the end of Q1, there were 6,065 projects with 702,990 rooms in the pipeline, according to the Q1 2024 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE).
Washington, DC, April 24, 2024—New orders for manufactured durable goods in March, up two consecutive months, increased $7.3 billion or 2.6% to $283.4 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced.
Atlanta, GA, April 24, 2024––Coverings has bestowed Coverings Installation & Design (CID) Awards to recognize 21 exceptional projects for their ingenuity, craftsmanship and technical proficiency in the use of tile and stone.
Royersford, PA, April 24, 2024—Mobile Marketing was recently named a Premier Partner in the Google Partner program for 2024.
Dalton, GA, April 23, 2024––The World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) has announced the extension of CEO Scott Humphrey’s leadership through January 2028, with the option for renewal on a yearly basis.
Washington, DC, April 24, 2024—Mortgage applications decreased 2.7% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 19, 2024.
Washington, DC, April 23, 2024—Sales of new single-family houses in March 2024 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 693,000, according to estimates released jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 8.8% above the revised February rate of 637,000 and 8.3 percent% above the March 2023 estimate of 640,000.
Clemson, SC, April 23, 2024-U.S. ceramic tile manufacturers, representing over 90% of all U.S. ceramic tile manufacturing are filing anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions with the federal government seeking the imposition of substantial tariffs on imports of ceramic tile from India to remedy unfairly low-priced imports that have injured domestic manufacturers and flooded the market with uncertified porcelain tiles.