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1.
New-home sales hit a 40-year low
Sales of new homes dropped to their lowest level since the government started tracking the numbers more than four decades ago, offering an ominous sign for the direction of the ...
USD, Department of Commerce, Real estate market, National Association of Realtors, Wells Fargo Securities, All keywords...
washingtonpost.com
1 week ago
2.
An August Surprise from Obama?
Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders ...
Barry Obama, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, USD, President, All keywords...
blogs.reuters.com
1 month ago
3.
China Said to Test Banks for 60% Home-Price Drop
China’s stress tests of banks will assess the risk that a possible slump in property prices may strain developers’ finances and cause homebuyers to default, a person with knowledge of ...
China, Shanghai, China Banking Regulatory Commission, Bank of China Ltd., Real estate market, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
1 month ago
4.
Risk to Global Economy: China's Real Estate Bubble Threatens to Burst
Even Xu Shaoshi, China's minister of land and resources, fears that the real estate market could undergo a "total correction" in the third quarter -- although, he adds, it will ...
China, USD, Qi Yunbu, CNY, Tianjin, All keywords...
spiegel.de
1 month ago
5.
Walking Away From Million-Dollar Mortgages
At one house, where the lender was owed $1.3 million, there was a couch out front wrapped in plastic. A woman said she and her husband had lost their jobs ...
USD, CoreLogic, Ken Lowman, The New York Times, The New York Times, All keywords...
nytimes.com
1 month ago
6.
Spillonomics - Underestimating Risk
In a little-noticed provision in a 1990 law passed after the Exxon Valdez spill, Congress capped a spiller’s liability over and above cleanup costs at $75 million for a rig ...
Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Oil, Texas, Secretary of state, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 months ago
7.
Andrew Shapiro on Reading International Inc (NASDAQ:RDI)
Andrew Shapiro, President of Lawndale Capital Management, has provided today’s guest post on Reading International Inc (NASDAQ:RDI): Exhibitor Reading Int 19l 13 Cashing in on Aussie Land Boom 13 ge
USD, Melbourne, Reading, Reading International Inc, Andrew Shapiro, All keywords...
greenbackd.com
3 months ago
8.
Why Housing is Headed for Second-Half Headaches
Although home sales increased more than expected in April, real estate experts are expressing concern that the market may face renewed downward pressure in the second half of the year. ...
Ian Shepherdson, USD, Real estate experts, National Association of Realtors, David Resler, All keywords...
news.yahoo.com
3 months ago
9.
Can China handle its inflation problem?
Comment on this storyChinese CPI (Consumer Price Index) and PPI (Producer Price Index) are up 2.8% and 6.8%, respectively, year-over-year. Combined, this is the largest spike in combined inflation in ...
China, United States, James Chanos, Chinese government, Real estate prices, All keywords...
money.cnn.com
3 months ago
10.
Bubble, Bubble, China's in Trouble: The Mad Scramble for Chinese Real Estate
The Chinese dream, like the American dream, has taken shape around the promise that each new generation will live better than the one before it. In recent years, that has ...
China, United States, Real estate, Goldman Sachs, CHRISTINA LARSON, All keywords...
foreignpolicy.com
3 months ago
11.
Who Would Dare Downgrade U.S. Debt?
The Weiss Group returned to the ratings game last week, and the research firm's chairman has already made a provocative challenge to the dominant credit rating agencies: strip the AAA-rating ...
Weiss Group, Martin Weiss, Standard & Poor's, Moody's, U.S. Debt, All keywords...
forbes.com
3 months ago
12.
Kick-Ass Double-Digit March Home Sales Increases: Phoenix (+16%), Miami (+43%), Seattle (+52%)
1. Phoenix March Home Sales - In March a total of 9,626 new and resale houses and condos sold in the Phoenix metropolitan area, up 41.1 percent from the month ...
Phoenix, Seattle, Miami, USD, Real estate market, All keywords...
mjperry.blogspot.com
4 months ago
13.
In China, real estate fever is rising
Advertisement Taxi drivers boast of owning multiple flats for investment. Billboards hawk developments with names such as Villa Glorious and Rich Country. Frenzied crowds pack sales events with bags of ...
China, Hefei, Real estate fever, Outpost of Hefei, Real estate markets, All keywords...
articles.latimes.com
4 months ago
14.
Chinese savings and the wealth effect
Sorry to regular readers for my blog 19s being out of commission for much of the past week, but apparently it has created too much traffic for the host, so ...
China, Pedro Malan, United States, Brazil, Sao Paolo, All keywords...
mpettis.com
4 months ago
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As Expected, Housing Starts Slowed by Blizzards
Home building slowed in February as snowstorms brought construction to a halt in some of the country’s largest markets, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
United States, Home building, Department of Commerce, Tim Boyle, Bloomberg, All keywords...
nytimes.com
4 months ago
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