title: chart of the day mind the russell epic breakdown underway
text: new home sales  tightrope walk over a windy canyon by lee adler   the commerce department reported today that sales of newly built homes posted a seasonally adjusted month to month increase of  to an annualized rate of  the department revised the august headline number down by  from  to  without that revision the headline number this month would have been down by  surprise surprise revise revise