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Slower price growth has been little balm for a stagnant housing market.

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“There was a lot of creation in it. It felt like it wasn’t stagnant.”

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Earlier this week, Home Depot reported lower third-quarter profit and trimmed its full-year outlook, as economic uncertainty, high interest rates and a stagnant housing market prompted homeowners to scale back home improvements.

Home improvement activity has sagged as a stagnant housing market, high interest rates and general uncertainty about the economic environment led homeowners to delay remodeling and repair projects.

The catalysts are evident: inflation, high interest rates, a bleak job market, wealth inequality and stagnant wages.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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