Within the coming weeks, long-awaited, much debated new regulations from the U.S. Department of Education are due to hit the sector and possibly affect share prices for some of its 15 publicly traded companies whose stocks, on average, have already fallen by around 30% in the last year in the face of increased scrutiny.

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Thus changes in house prices directly affect far more people than do changes in share prices.

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This would likely affect their financial performance and therefore share prices.

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Share prices can also affect the cost of capital.

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