Reuters Business Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)

Story date: 2008-07-17 11:24:41
Added on: 2008-07-17 12:12:37

Home starts still weak despite surprising jump WASHINGTON - Housing starts took a surprising jump in June, the government reported on Thursday, but only because of a change in New York's building code that briefly obscured a drop in single-family home building. Total starts rose 9.1 percent in June but would have dropped 4 percent except for the actions of New York City ...


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