European Debt Crisis Impacting Global Home Price Index, Weakest Performance Since 2009 Says Knight Frank

According to Knight Frank’s latest Global House Price Index, worldwide home prices recorded their weakest annual performance since the depths of the recession in 2009, recording only 0.9% growth in the year to March 2012. Doubts over the Eurozone’s future, coupled with the
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Fears over Greece’s political and financial crisis

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on Wednesday with traders citing comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel about keeping Greece in the euro zone as encouraging for markets. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 46.93 points, or 0.37 percent, to 12,678.93. The Standard �
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Merkel, Sarkozy meet to tackle differences over euro crisis (Reuters)

Reuters – German Chancellor Angela Merkel will thrash out differences with French President Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday over how to use the euro zone’s financial firepower to counter a sovereign debt crisis threatening the global economy. Yahoo! News: Business News
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Did Single-Family Property Investors Drive Housing into Crisis?

By apparently misreporting their intentions to occupy the single-family properties they were buying, the higher degree of leverage investors took on for their home property purchases directly contributed to higher rates of default during the current housing market crisis, according to
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