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US Real Estate Conditions Year-End 2015
“Rents Will Rise Faster Than Home Prices In 2016, Consumers Say,” screams a headline from The Mortgage Reports Wednesday. “According to Fannie Mae’s most recent National Housing Survey, US consumers expect that home prices will climb 2.3 per cent between now and next year; and that rents will rise by nearly double that amount.” Each…
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US Economy and Economic Indicators
This week new research was released on the current makeup of the US middle class, the continuing commodities price slump, other — more general — US economic indicators provide a somewhat less murky, if still muted, projection of the health of the US economy over the next year or two. Said Bill McBride in his…
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US Economy and Economic Indicators
This week new research was released on the current makeup of the US middle class, the continuing commodities price slump, other — more general — US eco- nomic indicators provide a somewhat less murky, if still muted, projection of the health of the US economy over the next year or two. Pew Research Center Analysis…
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US Highway Bill Drafted and Passes Senate
The very, very long-awaited Fixing America’s Surface Transportation, Act, — also known as fast and the Highway Bill — was drafted by lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate, who unveiled the US$305 billion measure to fund highways and mass-transit projects Tuesday in Washington, DC. The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the…
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Canada Softwood Lumber Production: September 2015
Lumber production by sawmills increased 5.2 per cent from August to 5,563.5 thou- sand cubic metres in September, according to new data released by Statistics Canada Tuesday. Compared with September 2014, lumber production rose 7.8 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,609.5 thousand cubic metres of lumber in September, up 8.5 per cent from August. Shipments rose…
