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Google Trends

Yesterday, Google announced the release of their new "Trends" tool.  You can check it out at www.google.com/trends.  We toyed around with it a little and did a trend search on "real estate bubble".  Check out the trend chart displayed below:

Googletrends

The bulk of the "real estate bubble" searches were coming straight out of California, where home prices had risen dramatically.  When looking at a chart of the S&P 500 Homebuilder Index, it seems that the homebuilder stocks peaked out at about the same time that the "real estate bubble" searches peaked:

Homebuildergroup

An interesting tool.

May 11, 2006 in Market Musings |

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