Sales of new single‐family houses rose by 9.6% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 683,000, the data published jointly by the US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development showed on Tuesday.
This reading followed February's decline of 3.9% came in much better than the market expectation for an increase of 1.1%.
The US Dollar continues to gather strength in the American session and the US Dollar Index was last seen rising 0.5% on the day at 101.85.