US new homes building still weak

Story date: 2007-11-20 08:32:00
Added on: 2007-11-20 11:18:50

BBC Business - Against a backdrop of higher US mortgage rates, loan defaults in the sub-prime sector have hit record highs. This has knocked confidence in the wider US housing market, and also caused a credit squeeze as a growing number of US banks reveal their ...


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