Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 13.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 394,000 units in July as higher mortgage rates prompted a temporary pause in buying activity, according to newly released data from HUD ...
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The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index slipped 0.4 percent in July after edging 0.1 percent higher in June. (June's increase was the same as ATA reported on July 23, 2013.) The ...
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Germany-based reinsurance group Hannover Re is in discussions to acquire a minority stake in Lloyds Banking Group’s German arm, Heidelberger Leben, for approximately €100m ($133.5m). The sale of stake in Heidelberger Leben is ...
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US for-hire truck tonnage dipped 0.4% in July, marking the first decline since April. The small decline came on the heels of a 0.1% increase in June. June 2013 posted the highest tonnage on record, according to American Trucking ...
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The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for July fell 0.4 percent. That's the first drop since April and comes as no surprise, said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. "After ...
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US-based National Mortgage Insurance Corporation (National MI) has completed systems integration with Fiserv’s LoanServ platform to streamline data transfer and to enhance operational efficiency. The platform will assist lenders, ...
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Lloyds Banking Group, a 40% government-owned UK lender, is mulling to divest its German insurance business Heidelberger Leben to Frankfurt-listed insurer Hannover Re, in a transaction valued at approximately €400m ($533m). As part of ...
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Nationwide housing affordability slipped several notches as recovering markets witnessed significant firming of home prices in the second quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index ...
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Housing starts in Canada were trending at 187,416 units in July compared to 182,142 in June, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The trend is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual ...
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China will lower administrative fees charged by 14 government departments, effective from October 1 this year, the country's top economic planner announced on Tuesday. The move is expected to help enterprises and individuals save about ...
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It is learned that recently 30 HOKA dump trucks of Sino Truck delivery ceremony was held at Guizhou Bijie Shunlian Automotive Trade Co., Ltd. About 40 people attended this ceremony, such as Liu Zhengtao, GM of Sino Truck Jinan Commercial ...
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Median home prices continued to rise in the majority of metropolitan areas in the second quarter, with the national year-over-year price showing the strongest gain in seven-and-a-half years, according to the latest quarterly report by the ...
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National Real Estate Development and Sales in the First Seven Months of 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-08-09 15:49:01 1. The completion of real estate investment The total investment in real estate development in the ...
American International Group (AIG) has reported net income attributable to the company of $2.7bn, or $1.84 per share, for the quarter of 2013, up by 17% compared to $2.3bn, or $1.33 per share during the corresponding period earlier year. ...
Rising mortgage rates are showing no sign of derailing new-home sales. Single-family new-home sales rose 8.3 percent in June to the highest level since May 2008, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. What's more, they were up 38.1 ...
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