Monday, May 24, 2010

Existing Home Sales

Existing-home sales, increased 7.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million units in April from an upwardly revised 5.36 million in March, and are 22.8 percent higher than the 4.70 million-unit pace in April 2009.
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Friday, May 7, 2010

Re-insurance and loan guarantees

H.R. 2555: "Homeowners' Defense Act" (Klein, D-FL) would provide for a federal reinsurance and loan guarantee program to help stabilize insurance rates for states that implement mitigation and building code programs and meet stringent credit-risk requirements. Without stable funding alternatives, states must maintain artificially inflated rates to hedge against risk in an increasingly volatile global reinsurance market. http://www.pameladubois.com