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		<title>Real Estate Outlook: The Numbers Are In</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drop in the latest pending home sales index got a lot of press attention, but that blip downward shouldn&#8217;t be your guide on what to expect for real estate in 2010. The 16 percent decline in November pending sales from October&#8217;s unusually high index was due almost entirely to buyers&#8217; behavior confronting what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDIC Shells Out More for 2009 Bank Failures than S&amp;L Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to its own estimates, the FDIC will sustain losses exceeding $36 billion to cover the 140 bank failures in 2009. That price tag will eclipse the total dollar amount of the losses the FDIC incurred during the six years spanning 1987 through 1992, when 1,049 banks collapsed during the savings and loan (S&#38;L) crisis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Investors Returning to Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Savvy investors are always the first to jump in a potentially profitable housing market and a new survey indicates things are heating up. More than 12 percent of homebuyers today plan to purchase a home as an investment, compared to less than half, only 5.6 percent, just seven months ago, according to a recent Move.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Hunting for a Bottom in Housing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decimated housing market may get considerably worse before it gets better, according to housing-industry professionals, who expect foreclosures and home-price declines to continue pressuring the sector through at least the first half of 2010. The biggest problem will likely be a flood of inventory hitting the market from rising foreclosures, says Bob Curran, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed will hike rates &#8211; in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; It appears 0% is here for the foreseeable future. A year ago, the Federal Reserve took its key overnight lending rate, the fed funds rate, down to near 0% for the first time in its history in an effort to keep the economy from falling into depression. The cheap money meant [...]]]></description>
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