Hints and tips:
...In the US, the Chinese have been the biggest group of foreign buyers every year since 2015, according to the National Association of Realtors....
...During their golden years before the meltdown, Fannie and Freddie profited hugely from being considered by investors as too big to fail....
...The Charlotte-based bank paid $9.5bn to resolve a similar investigation by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the US housing regulator, in March....
...There has been some rise in transactions everywhere but quite slow outside the golden 20....
...Ryan’s association with entitlement reform is at best orthogonal to that weakness, and at worst it exacerbates it substantially....
...Natural gas was formerly a national or regional fuel....
...The Terminator of the silver screen got re-elected governor of the Golden State but will leave the job with its finances terminated (not all his own fault)....
...China has also been diffident about what could be seen as a golden opportunity to play a larger role in international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank....
...In the aftermath of the US Treasury’s decision to seize control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, critics have hit at lax oversight of the mortgage companies....
...Trading volume was thin after the two-day Golden Week holiday. Exporters were bolstered by the weaker tone of the yen....
...The National Association of Homebuilders activity index, due on Monday, has recovered from its low (which was consistent historically with a US recession) but sentiment remains weak....
...With fixed incomes, the newly homeless are unlikely to qualify for mortgages. The biggest housing grant offered by FEMA is $10,200....
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