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...trick of the real estate trade is price-rent ratio, sort of the property equivalent of a stock's price-earnings ratio. What it's saying lately is encouraging, though not downright bullish...
...will miss 2008. Stock markets tanked. Government budgets bled as billions went to bail out banks. Thousands lost their jobs or their homes, or both. Yet amid the gloom there was one reason to celebrate as the year ended: filling your car with gas got cheaper with each day. After hitting a high of $147 a barrel in July, world oil prices have crashed to their lowest levels since 2004. By Jan. 7 the cost of oil for February delivery was around $43 a barrel - less than half the price of a year earlier. Goldman Sachs last month predicted that...
Texas is thus far free of the wasting disease and wants to stay that way. The threat, not only to animals on stock farms but also to those in the wild, is prompting Texas regulators to seek an increase in the penalty for smuggling from a misdemeanor to a felony, Williford says. Federal and state wildlife officials take smuggling cases seriously, but investigations take a long time to develop - a recent case was built over two years and then took 18 months to work its way through federal courts, where penalties are harsher...
...Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan, which would buy dollars in currency markets to boost the greenback and undercut the yen. Some analysts say the exchange rate could soon reach 80 yen to the dollar. That would almost certainly spark another plunge in Japan's beleaguered stock markets - another concern for Japanese authorities...
...Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would allow the opening of a "humanitarian corridor" to bring supplies to the besieged 1.5 million Gazans trapped by the conflict and called for all fighting to be suspended for three hours on a daily basis to allow residents to stock up on necessities. "While we welcome the humanitarian corridor," says Gunness, the UNRWA spokesman, "this cannot compromise the need for an immediate cease-fire...