At the time the sale was widely seen as beneficial toward buying Reuters.

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Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.

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Harking back to the question I posed at the end of my last post, the Rock sale could therefore be seen as a harbinger of eurozone meltdown - just as its collapse in 2007 marked, for many, the beginning of the original credit crunch.

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Munster's quarter-final place was secured when O'Leary sniped over for his side's fifth try in the 66th minute and Sale's defence was nowhere to be seen as Warwick ran in another score eight minutes from time.

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This was the story of the elderly couple who bought a plant at a car boot sale, which grew into what local police described as the biggest cannabis plant they had ever seen.

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Exchanges here have gone public and are seen as businesses, which is perhaps one reason there has been little outcry over the sale of NYSE, an American institution.

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"I am appealing for anyone who may have seen these trophies for sale or been offered the items to buy in unusual circumstances to contact Surrey Police as soon as possible, " he said.

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