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		<title>(EQR) Used Home Prices Stabilize in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, home prices were mixed on a seasonally adjusted basis. The Case-Schiller Composite 10 City index (C-10) fell a slight 0.12% on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is down 3.77% from a year ago. The broader Composite 20 City index (which includes the cities in the C-10) edged up by 0.05% on the month and is down 4.16% from a year ago. Prices for both indexes rose by 0.9% for the month on a not-seasonally-adjusted basis (which is how you will probably see most of the reports presented). Of the 20 cities, nine were up on the month-to-month basis (seasonally adjusted), and eleven were down. Year over year, though, 18 were down, and only Detroit and Washington DC made it into the plus column. The overall indexes are down ]]></description>
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		<title>(SA) U.S. Housing Prices Mixed in June</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/09/01/sa-u-s-housing-prices-mixed-in-june/82306</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, home prices were mixed. The Case-Schiller Composite 10 City index (C-10) rose a slight 0.04% on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is down 3.85% from a year ago. The broader Composite 20 City index (which includes the cities in the C-10) edged down by 0.06% on the month and is down 4.55% from a year ago. Prices for both indexes rose on a not-seasonally-adjusted (SA) basis (which is how you will probably and incorrectly see most of the reports presented). Of the 20 cities, eight were up on the month-to-month basis (SA), and twelve were down. Year over year, though, all twenty were down. The rise in the C-10 was the third in a row. The overall indexes are down 31.90% (C-10) and 31.87% (C-20) from the (4/06) ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Equity Residential Second Quarter Earnings Scorecard</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/08/05/eqr-equity-residential-second-quarter-earnings-scorecard/80760</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity Residential (EQR) reported funds from operations (FFO) of $180.7 million in second quarter 2011 compared with $175.1 million in the year-ago quarter. FFO per share in the reported quarter remained flat year over year at 58 cents. Fund from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income. Excluding one-time items, FFO in the second quarter stood at $186.7 million or 60 cents per share compared with $175.2 million or 58 cents per share in the year- ago quarter. Reported FFO was in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. We cover below the results of the recent earnings announcement, as well as the subsequent analyst estimate revisions and the Zacks ratings for the ]]></description>
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		<title>(BRE) BRE Properties Beats Estimates</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/08/04/bre-bre-properties-beats-estimates/80633</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRE Properties Inc (BRE) reported second quarter 2011 funds from operations (FFO) of $34.9 million or 49 cents per share versus $28.9 million or 46 cents per share in the year-earlier quarter. Funds from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income.  Recurring FFO in the quarter inched past the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny. Total revenue from continuing operations during the second quarter was $93.5 million versus $84.0 million in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were $59.6 million in second quarter 2011 compared with $54.6 million in the year-earlier quarter. Overall same-store revenues and net operating income increased 2.9% and 4.4%, respectively, driven by ]]></description>
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		<title>(UDR) UDR Adds Asset at Record Price</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/06/30/udr-udr-adds-asset-at-record-price/78056</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UDR Inc. (UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently acquired a luxury condo-turned-rental project in Washington DC, for $104 million or $670 per square foot – the highest price per square foot ever paid for a Class A rental property in the region. The 185-unit apartment complex called ‘View 14’ was purchased from Level 2 Development, LLC – a local real estate firm specializing in the construction of luxury residential and mixed-use projects. ‘View 14’ is the second such property that UDR has acquired from the DC-based real estate firm. Earlier in September 2007, the company had purchased Nehemiah Shopping Center for $30.9 million. With the recent purchase, UDR currently has 16 properties in and around Washington DC. Spanning 155,000 square feet, the acquired property is ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) U.S. Home Prices Mixed &#8211; Good News</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/06/28/eqr-u-s-home-prices-mixed-good-news/77730</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April, home prices were mixed. The Case-Schiller Composite 10 City index (C-10) rose an ever-so-slight 0.01% on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is down 3.04% from a year ago. The broader Composite 20 City index (which includes the cities in the C-10) fell by 0.09% on the month and is down 3.93% from a year ago. Prices for both indexes rose on a not-seasonally-adjusted basis. Of the 20 cities, nine were up on the month-to-month basis (seasonally adjusted), and 11 were down. Year over year, though, just Washington DC areas saw a gain and 19 suffered losses. Washington DC was the strongest by far, with prices up 1.96% on the month and up 4.09% from a year ago. The rise in the C-10 was the first increase since June ]]></description>
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		<title>(TOL) U.S. Housing: Past and Future</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/06/28/tol-u-s-housing-past-and-future/77727</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this piece written by Larry Kudlow, the host of two shows on CNBC. It is from June 20, 2005: “Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain. This is a group that hedge funds and bubbleheads love to hate. All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates. So have all the bubbleheads who expect housing-price crashes in Las Vegas or Naples, Florida, to bring down the consumer, the rest of the economy, and the entire stock market. None of this has happened&#8230;[T]he homebuilders index has increased 76 percent over the past year, with particularly well-run companies like Toll Brothers (TOL) up about twice as much. The bubbleheads missed all this because they haven’t done their homework&#8230;. ]]></description>
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		<title>(UDR) UDR Raises Quarterly Dividend</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/06/22/udr-udr-raises-quarterly-dividend/77132</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UDR Inc. (UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently increased its second quarter 2011 dividend from 18.5 cents to 20 cents. The quarterly dividend, payable in cash, would be paid on August 1, 2011 to shareholders of record as of July 11, 2011. The recent dividend payout will be the 155th consecutive quarterly dividend paid by the company. UDR is among a select group of companies who have maintained an uninterrupted dividend payout even during recession, when most companies have suspended the same. A steady dividend payout facilitates the long-term strategy of UDR to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to its stockholders. The company has also historically promulgated a dividend reinvestment and direct stock purchase plan through which stockholders may purchase additional shares of the company by ]]></description>
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		<title>(UDR) UDR Reports 2011 First Quarter Mixed Results</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2011/05/04/udr-udr-reports-2011-first-quarter-mixed-results/73173</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UDR, Inc (UDR) reported first quarter 2011 FFO (fund from operations) of $56.8 million or 30 cents per share compared to $46.8 million or 28 cents in the year-earlier quarter. Funds from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income. The reported FFO per share was in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Total revenues during the quarter were $164.5 million compared to $145.1 million in the prior-year quarter. Total revenues in the reported quarter were below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $170 million. Same-store occupancy remained relatively high at 95.6% during the quarter. Same-store revenues and net operating income increased 2.6% and 3.0% respectively, during the quarter compared to year-ago quarter. Same ]]></description>
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		<title>(MO) We Consider Five Reasons Why the S&amp;P 500 Will Hit 1,350</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/07/09/mo-we-consider-five-reasons-why-the-sp-500-will-hit-1350/42903</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Weinschenk, Contributing Editor Thursday, July 8, 2010: Issue #1297 If you’ve talked yourself out of buying stocks recently, set aside your fears right now. Fear is what kept many investors out of stocks when the bull market started in 2002. Seven years later, investors missed out again when the March 2009 bull market got underway. And if you let fear take over now, you’re going to miss the market’s next upward swing. Don’t worry about what you read in the headlines, or hear on cable news. The headlines never tell the whole story. Now is the time to put your money into stocks, because the S&#38;P 500 is bound for 1,350 over the next year or two. And I’ll tell you exactly why… Fear and Fundamentals As you ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Equity Residential REIT Sees Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/02/04/eqr-equity-residential-reit-sees-growth/26996</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity Residential (EQR), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), reported fiscal 2009 fourth quarter funds from operations (FFO) of $126.9 million or 43 cents per share, compared to $79.1 million or 27 cents per share in the year-earlier quarter. Fund from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income. For full year 2009, FFO was $616.1 million or $2.12 per share compared to $619.0 million or $2.13 per share in the previous year. Total revenues during the quarter were $483.0 million compared to $501.1 million in the year-ago period. Same-store (fourth quarter 2009 vs. fourth quarter 2008 comparison which includes 117,683 apartment units) quarterly revenues decreased 4.7%, while same-store operating expenses decreased ]]></description>
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		<title>(DHI) U.S. Homeownership Rate Falls Again</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/02/02/dhi-u-s-homeownership-rate-falls-again/26810</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A smaller percentage of Americans owned their own homes in the 4th quarter of 2009 than at any time since 2000. In the 4th quarter 67.2% of Americans owned their own home, down from 67.6% in the third quarter and two full percentage points below the peak set in the fourth quarter of 2004. As the first graph below shows (from http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/), the homeownership rate rose steadily throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, rising from under 63% in 1965 to just short of 66% by 1980. The super high interest rates needed to slay the inflation dragon took their toll, however, and by the end of 1986, the rate had fallen all the way back to 63.5%. We then spent a decade with the homeownership rate hovering around 64%. In ]]></description>
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		<title>(FNM) Housing and Rental Data</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2010/01/08/fnm-housing-and-rental-data/24454</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the government efforts to help the housing market, such as the Fed buying up fully one quarter of all the mortgage-backed securities backed by Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE) and Ginnie Mae, as well as the “first time&#8221; homebuyer tax credit, are designed to move people from being renters to being owners. But while there are some ancillary benefits to neighborhoods of most people owning rather than renting, it really does not solve the problem. What it does is cause there to be a lot of vacant apartments. In addition, a large number of formerly foreclosed-upon houses have been bought up by cash investors who plan on renting out those houses rather than living in them themselves. The net result is that there is a glut of ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Consumer Price Index Rose Moderately</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/12/16/eqr-consumer-price-index-rose-moderately/23011</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.4% in November, following increases of 0.3% in October and 0.2% in September. Relative to a year ago, prices are up 1.8%. That is a big jump from last month, but that is due to big declines in the CPI from a year ago rolling off. Most of the increase in CPI was due to energy prices. Core CPI was unchanged on the month, following back-to-back increases of 0.2% in the prior two months. On a year-over-year basis, core inflation was up 1.7%.  However, going forward, look for the year-over-year rate of core inflation to fall, while the year-over-year headline inflation number will start to increase as the big energy price declines of last winter roll ]]></description>
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		<title>(F) Consumer Price Index Up on Cars and Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/11/18/f-consumer-price-index-up-on-cars-and-energy/20875</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October rose by 0.3%, a little bit hotter than the 0.2% that was expected. If one strips out volatile food and energy prices to get the core consumer price index, prices were up 0.2%, also one tick higher than the 0.1% expected. A rise in energy prices was not unexpected. Heck, one only has to see what the price of crude oil and natural gas have done over the last month or so. For the month, the price of energy rose 1.5% overall. The rise was sharpest among energy commodities, like gasoline and heating oil, which rose by 1.9%. Energy services, like electricity rose a more moderate &#8212; but still steep &#8212; 0.9%. The rise in core consumer prices was a bit more of ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Equity Residential Broadens Earnings Guidance</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/11/01/eqr-equity-residential-broadens-earnings-guidance/19233</link>
		<comments>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/11/01/eqr-equity-residential-broadens-earnings-guidance/19233#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity Residential (EQR) yesterday reported revenues of $492.7 million, down 3.6% year over year. On a same store basis (third quarter 2009 vs. third quarter 2008 comparison which includes 119,121 apartment units), revenues decreased 3.9% due to a 3.2% decrease in average rental rates and a 0.7% decrease in occupancy to 93.7%. Fund from operations (FFO), a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs and obtained after adding depreciation and other non-cash expenses to net income, was 53 cents per share during the quarter compared to 64 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. The year-over-year decrease in FFO was primarily due to a decline in operating income. During the reported quarter, the company sold 24 consolidated properties, consisting of 4,620 apartment units, for an aggregate sale price ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Is the Federal Housing Administration Going Broke?</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/10/12/eqr-is-the-federal-housing-administration-going-broke/17378</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning’s New York Times has an important article on the Federal Housing Administration. The FHA has stepped in to back up mortgage loans as the private sector has stopped making them. Essentially, it is playing the role of a sub-prime lender, and appears to be making many of the same mistakes the fallen or defunct sub-prime lenders made. For starters, it is allowing people to buy with down payments of only 3.5%. Further, people can use the $8,000 first time homebuyer tax credit for that 3.5%. Buy a house and walk away from the closing with a check in your pocket. The historical record of people who bought houses with the assistance of charitable down payment assistance programs (DAP) is not a pretty one when it comes to default rates. The tax ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Homeownership Rate Falling</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/10/06/eqr-homeownership-rate-falling/16658</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DR Horton Inc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming out of most economic downturns, homebuilding is one of the key locomotives to power the economy. Housing is sort of the ultimate durable good, where during downturns demand builds up, and then has a powerful upward force on the economy as the pent-up demand is released. Given that almost all houses are financed rather than bought with cash, the sector is exquisitely interest-rate sensitive. However, with the rate of home ownership falling, residential investment (RI) will not be a very powerful engine this time around. First, let me present the following graph (from http://www.calculatedriskblog.com) showing that historically what has been one of the key forces behind both going into and coming out of recessions &#8212; it shows the history of housing starts over the last 40 years. Notice that ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) Consumer Prices Up Slightly</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/09/16/eqr-cpi-consumer-prices-up-slightly/15367</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Price Index [CPI] rose 0.4% in August on a headline basis, a tick higher than consensus expectations of 0.3%. If food and energy are stripped out, prices rose 0.1%, in line with expectations. On a headline basis this follows an unchanged reading in July and a 0.7% increase in June. On a core basis it follows increases of 0.1% and 0.2% in July and June, respectively. The rise in the headline number was almost entirely a function of a 9.1% increase in gasoline prices. Food prices rose in line with the rest of the consumer shopping basket, up 0.1%. On a year-over-year basis it is a different picture, with core prices up 1.5%, while on a headline basis the CPI is down 1.4%. Once again, the key difference is energy prices. ]]></description>
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		<title>(EQR) House Prices Actually Appear to be RISING</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2009/08/25/eqr-house-prices-actually-appear-to-be-rising/13346</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vitalstocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Case-Schiller composite index of housing prices in 20 major metropolitan areas rose 0.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis in June, following an essentially unchanged reading in May. The not-seasonally-adjusted numbers were even better (and what most of the press coverage were initially focused on). However, there is a distinct seasonal pattern to housing prices, so it is better to focus on the seasonally adjusted numbers. The increase in prices was widespread, with 15 of the 20 areas seeing an increase &#8212; better than expected, and extremely good news. In May, nine of the 20 cities were up. The news is still tentative, with much of the good news coming from a reduction in supply as banks have been letting the foreclosure pipeline build, and an increase in demand from the first-time ]]></description>
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		<title>(MLP) 32 Billion Reasons The Average Investor Will Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.stockbloghub.com/2008/12/17/mlp-32-billion-reasons-the-average-investor-will-fail/1750</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>InvestmentU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[32 Billion Reasons The Average Investor Will Fail by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist, Investment U Associate Investment Director, The Oxford Club Thursday, December 11, 2008: Issue #899 I&#8217;ll be the first to concede the going&#8217;s tough. That almost every &#8220;time-tested&#8221; strategy that worked well in bull markets is sputtering and collapsing. But is it so bad we&#8217;ve given up on turning a profit? And just resigned ourselves to preserving our principal, right? WRONG. This week the Treasury sold $32 billion in 4-week bills at a yield of ZERO percent. That&#8217;s not a typo. Investors actually clamored for the opportunity to lend the government their money in return for absolutely no return. In fact, investors bid $126 billion at the auction, more than four times the amount available. As Michael Franzese, ]]></description>
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