After May's big rebound in both starts and permits, June was expected to show further 'recovery' in the US housing market (with starts surging far more than permits) as mortgage rates plunged to record lows.

And while both Housing Starts (+17.3% MoM) and Building Permits (+2.1% MoM), rose notably, they both missed expectations by a mile (+22.2% and +6.3% respectively), though revisions impacted that spread notably.

Source: Bloomberg

The "V"-shaped recovery is already stalling out...