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. . . sales of new homes decreased by 8.1% in June and that May’s originally reported double-digit increase was revised lower, from almost 19% to only 8%

In other words, the original May report was yet another fiction created only to stimulate irrational exuberance (shifting some sales forward a month and then inventing others out of thin air), and it failed because no one believes anything FedGov says under this administration.