HOUSE VALUES DECLINE 8.2 PERCENT IN JULY.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 1, 2008 ;     619 words ......Pierce and Snohomish counties fell 8.2 percent in July, the sixth consecutive record year-to-...1990 in Seattle. July values were down 1 percent from June, a notably larger drop than June's 0.2 percent decrease from May, according to figures...

September home sales dip 8.7 percent in region.(Real Estate)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 7, 2008 ;     452 words ......single-family and condominiums) were down 8.7 percent to 9,686 sales in September, compared...price in September was $179,650, down 9.7 percent from $199,000 last year. The median is...for the North Central region was 6.05 percent in September, down 0.47 points from the...

20 percent of homes 'upside down,' report says.(Business)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 1, 2008 ;     338 words ......Bloomberg News SAN FRANCISCO Almost 20 percent of U.S. mortgage borrowers owed more on...follow should home prices decline another 5 percent, Santa Ana, Calif.-based First American...said. Six states account for almost 60 percent of homes with negative equity. In Illinois...

1st Ld-Writethru: Chinese share prices up more than 3 percent

Xinhua News Agency;  January 5, 2009 ;     368 words ......Chinese share prices up more than 3 percent BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares soared more than 3 percent in the first trading day of the new year...Composite Index gained 59.84 points, or 3.29 percent, to 1,880.72. The Shenzhen Component...

1st Ld-Writethru: Chinese share prices 3 percent higher upon regional...

Xinhua News Agency;  January 6, 2009 ;     260 words ......Ld-Writethru: Chinese share prices 3 percent higher upon regional rises BEIJING...Index gained 56.42 points, or 3.00 percent, to 1,937.14. The Shenzhen Component Index rose 160.46 points, or 2.42 percent, to 6,795.34. Combined turnover jumped...

82 Percent of Israeli Youth: Another Holocaust is Possible.

Israel Faxx;  January 7, 2009 ;     268 words ......Institute for the Study of the Holocaust finds that 82 percent of Israel=92= s=20 youth believe another Holocaust...94 Among the older=20 respondents, more than 70 percent did not agree. Only 26 percent of the younger respondents agreed that =93most...

Staple food prices up over 20 percent in Brazil in 2008

Xinhua News Agency;  January 7, 2009 ;     175 words ...Staple food prices up over 20 percent in Brazil in 2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan...price of staple foods jumped more than 20 percent in nine Brazilian state capitals last...Paraiba state, where costs rose 29.3 percent in 2008. In Natal, Rio Grande do Norte...

Foreclosures up 24 percent during October in Illinois.(Business)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 13, 2008 ;     252 words ......dailyherald.com Illinois foreclosure filings were up 24 percent in October and 31 percent over the same period last year, according to...filing, putting Illinois ninth on the list of percentage rankings. The company reports each action, with...

Qld: Four officers assaulted across SE QLD = 2Brisbane

AAP General News (Australia);  June 23, 2007 ;     95 words ......General News (Australia) 06-23-2007 Qld: Four officers assaulted across SE QLD = 2Brisbane An 18-year old man...laid tonight. Police also have identified the officers assaulted in the incident as Constable Grant Sampson...

DECEMBER HOG, PIG INVENTORY DOWN THREE PERCENT FROM YEAR AGO

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 30, 2008 ;     298 words ......inventory, at 1.12 million head was down 3 percent from the December 2007 number of 1.16...breeding hogs totaled 100,000 head, down 5 percent from last year's estimate, according to...inventory totaled 1.02 million head, 91 percent of the total hog and pig inventory. The...

Local jobless rate rises to 4.8 percent in November.(Business)

The Virginian Pilot;  January 7, 2009 ;     316 words ......Virginian-Pilot Hampton Roads' jobless rate jumped to 4.8 percent in November from 4.4 percent in October partly because of layoffs in Williamsburg...division. In the Richmond area, the rate climbed to 5 percent from 4.5 percent in October partly because of...

BSP targets 4.5 percent inflation rate for 2010.(Business News)

Manila Bulletin;  December 9, 2008 ;     454 words ......Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has finalized its inflation rate target of 4.5 percent plus-or-minus one percentage point for 2010, while forecast is 3.5-5.5 percent also in the same year. This is lower than 2009's forecast of 6-8 percent and...

Residential property values soar 55 percent

Missoulian;  December 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ......residential property has jumped an average of 55 percent statewide over the past 6-1/2 years, the...counties, while the lowest increase at 11 percent was in Liberty County in north-central...counties with an average increase of 103 percent in residential property values from Jan...

China-based telecom vendors win 90 percent of the TD-SCDMA tender worth...

Asia Pacific Telecom;  December 1, 2008 ;     95 words ......tender worth $4.4 billion, accounting for nearly 90 percent of the total deals. Staterun Datang Telecom Group...Fiberhome emerged as the biggest winners, grabbing 38 percent to 40 percent of the tender, according to local media. China Mobile...

Jobless rate climbs to 14-year high: 6.5 percent.(Business)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 8, 2008 ;     397 words ......unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut, far...quickly eroding. The jobless rate zoomed to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent in September, matching the rate in March 1994...