House hunting has always been a two-part process; narrowing the field and then getting your eyes on the homes that survive the cut. What’s changed is how powerful that first part has become. A well-built virtual tour can now do in twenty minutes what used to require a full weekend of driving around.

To be fair, not all of the PCE data was higher than expected, but none of the top line numbers were lower than expected. Core PCE was on target (notably 0.246%, so it nearly rounded up to 0.3 vs 0.2), but headline inflation was a tenth of a point above the monthly and annual targets. Traders were ap

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