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Major Borrowers to Reduce Bank Deposits
Home Prices Rose For Ninth Straight Month
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Expedites Temporary Housing For Residents In Areas Struck By LA Wildfires
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The Boy Scouts of America can lease public land from the City of San Diego for a cheap rate, even though the scouts prohibit atheists, agnostics and homosexuals from becoming members, a U.S. appeals court ruled. Existing Home Sales Rise to Fastest Pace in Three Years
Home resales rose sharply in November to their fastest pace in three years, a sign the recovery in the housing market is gaining steam. U.S. Home Building Permits Approach Four-and-Half-Year High
U.S. homebuilding permits touched their highest level in nearly 4-1/2 years in November, pointing to strength in the housing market, even though groundbreaking activity dropped. Two Killed as Sicilian Apartment Buildings Collapse
Two people were killed and 10 were injured when two apartment buildings collapsed overnight in the historical center of Palermo in Sicily, Italian emergency services said on Tuesday. China Home Prices Rises Quicken, Uptrend Takes Hold
China home prices showed fresh signs of recovery taking hold in November, the fourth month in the last five to show a rise as a two-year long government campaign to curb prices frays. Israel Approves 1,500 More Settler Homes in East Jerusalem
Israel approved plans to build 1,500 more Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem on Monday, an official said, days after provoking international protests against a project for another 3,000 such homes on land it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. UBS Faces $1.5 Billion Day of Reckoning Over Rate Rigging
UBS AG will pay around $1.5 billion to settle charges that a group of traders at its Japanese unit rigged Libor interest rates, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday as the Swiss bank prepares for a deal with regulators. As Crisis Brewed, Growing But Uneven Concerns at NY Fed
Top officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York expressed growing but uneven concerns about the brewing mortgage-market crisis in 2007 and 2008, according to minutes of board meetings that underline how authorities failed to grasp the real dangers the economy faced at that time. After Sandy, Adjuster Comes, But Not the Cash (Commentary)
When your home is destroyed, your first urge is to fix it. You want to rebuild, remove the smell of saturated insulation and the sight of mud-stained floors with the new, the clean, the livable. Dundee Shares Surge After Restructing Real Estate Unit
Shares of Dundee Corp soared as much as 14 percent on Friday after the asset management company said it would distribute half of its stake in its real estate unit to shareholders, unlocking value in frustration over what it believed was a low share price.
