The churches housing Occupy Wall Street protesters said they would try to provide shelter through this winter.
City and state officials are nervous about the coming year, as housing slows and Wall Street worries about the credit crunch.
Work is continuing to prevent a retaining wall collapsing at a housing development in Dromore, County Down.
Washington has promoted low interest rates as a housing cure-all, while Wall Street cowers in a lawsuit-weary fetal position.
With the slide in the housing market, the turbulence on Wall Street, and a lot of economic uncertainty, these are anxious times.
The weak housing figures didn't break Wall Street's stride though, as the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.8%, or 67.86 points, to 8, 390.77, while the Nasdaq Composite index jumped 2.1%, or 37.23 points, to 1, 802.15.
The nation's unemployment rate soared to 5.5% in May, up from 5.0% it April, for the biggest month-to-month increase since 1986. (See: "Jobbed Out") The melting payrolls stems from U.S. housing slump and credit crisis within Wall Street.
Much of the new housing will be built just beyond that wall, overlooking the embassy grounds.
Everyone on Wall Street knew that the housing market was in a bubble in 2007, but they thought there was still money to be made.
Asia stocks closed deep in the red, while U.S. stocks traded lower on Wall Street, as fresh housing data failed to offset worries over the euro zone.
Located close to tourist hot spots Ipanema and Leblon, it is the largest favela in the city with an estimated 250, 000 residents living in the vertiginous, tight wall of brick and concrete housing that covers the entire hillside.
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Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports that the housing market may have bottomed out.
As the aforementioned story from The Wall Street Journal makes plain, housing, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty, keeps the very human capital necessary for our economic revival from traveling to where it is most needed.
U.S. companies that owned rental apartments were the darlings of Wall Street until recently because the dismal housing market turned many would-be owners into renters.
Title insurer First American Financial ( FAF, 25) defied Wall Street group-think that anything housing-related would be stuck in reverse and has surged 55% since my recommendation last March.
Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm notes in the Wall Street Journal that by the time the housing market collapsed, Fannie and Freddie faced three regulatory quota mandates.
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In recent weeks, Wall Street had been hopeful that a slumping housing market that seemed to portend an economic slowdown would lead to a rate cut by the central bank during the first half the year.
Wall Street is ignoring a fresh bout of weak housing data as it waits for the Fed to come out of its two-day meeting.
Although the largest banks on Wall Street were the first to incur losses from housing-related securities that went south, other smaller banks are not immune.
With all the talk about deflation, double-dip recession, housing troubles and unemployment, it has increasingly become difficult to find Wall Street bulls.
Its best-known acquisition was JLG, a maker of lift equipment that Wall Street had come to regard as a proxy for the housing boom.
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Even figuring in the damage caused by the bursting of the housing bubble, the company's earnings still came in short of Wall Street's expected 43 cents per share.
The U.S. Commerce Department reported Thursday that housing starts fell to an annual rate of 550, 000, well below Wall Street's expectations of 605, 000.
Soon after, the capital was inundated as a wall of water cascaded down, destroying one-third of its housing and leaving many of its 1m inhabitants homeless.
The shares are up about 6.7% from the initial public offering price, as the company became the latest home builder to tap Wall Street's growing confidence in the U.S. housing recovery.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the recovery of the U.S. housing market is an important driver of pickup sales, with builders and contractors, punished by the drop in new-home building caused by the economic crash of 2008, meeting a pent-up demand to replace old vehicles.
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Now, or I should say, again, just when you thought it was safe to bottom-fish in the distressed single-family housing market, maybe for a home for you and your family, along comes the Wall Street gang, again.
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One of the biggest things that caused this recession was the housing bubble, and all those subprime loans that were going out that were getting packaged in Wall Street and folks were making millions and billions of dollars off them, and then the whole thing came crashing down.
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When Wachovia, for instance, announced its profit decline earlier this month, it said the deal flow has slowed and investors are skittish in the face of liquidity challenges - which means, until it becomes clearer how deep these losses have been, there's going to be sort of a cloud hanging over Wall Street, and also over the economy as a whole because this affects the housing market.
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