online.wsj.com - 12/23/2008
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WASHINGTON -- Sales of both new and existing homes tumbled in November, and prices continued to fall, as a plunging stock market and a sharply deteriorating economy drove consumers out of the market. Sales of existing homes, which include single-family homes and condos, fell 8.6% to a ...
dailypress.com - 12/31/2008
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dailypress.com —
NEWPORT NEWS - It looks like the Highlander
is in and the Prius is out — for
now at least. Trucks and sport utility vehicles will outsell cars for the first time since February, according to a December report by Edmunds.com, which tracks industry ...
(more)
Big is back: As pump prices plunge, SUV sales surge -
bloomberg.com - 12/23/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of new and
existing homes in the U.S. fell in November to
a nine-year low as a scarcity of credit and falling consumer confidence dissuaded potential buyers, economists said before reports today. Purchases dropped 1.4 ...
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November Housing Sales in U.S. Probably Fell to ...
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Economy Continues Shrinking
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... show the economy shrank by an annual rate of .5% between July and September, matching estimates. Corporate profits fell by 1.2%.
Plus: ...
Economy Continues Shrinking
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... show the economy shrank by an annual rate of .5% between July and September, matching estimates. Corporate profits fell by 1.2%.
Plus: ...
Hugh Hewitt: November's Housing Weakness; December's Refinance Wave
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Headlines today will report that the housing market was awful in November. No surprise there. As October's stock market sell-off rippled through the economy, home buyers froze and walked away in November. Today's Wall Street Journal also reports on the huge surge in mortgage refinacing in December , a massive rush reported on my show a couple of times in the past two weeks by Roger Schlessinger , and one that arrived after a lot of the mortgage business had laid off its loan officers and closing teams. But those that have stayed in the ...
Hugh Hewitt: November's Housing Weakness; December's Refinance Wave
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
Headlines today will report that the housing market was awful in November. No surprise there. As October's stock market sell-off rippled through the economy, home buyers froze and walked away in November. Today's Wall Street Journal also reports on the huge surge in mortgage refinacing in December , a massive rush reported on my show a couple of times in the past two weeks by Roger Schlessinger , and one that arrived after a lot of the mortgage business had laid off its loan officers and closing teams. But those that have stayed in the ...
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