Central Valley Business Times

With the upheaval in financial markets in recent years, the traditional relationship between interest rates and home improvement spending has significantly deteriorated. As a result, long-term interest rates have been removed from the LIRA estimation model. LIRA is designed to estimate national homeowner spending on improvements for the current quarter and subsequent three quarters. Read more at http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=25656