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Home prices up 9.7% year-over-year in January, CoreLogic reports
WASHINGTON -- U.S. home prices rose 9.7% in January from a year earlier, the biggest increase since 2006, a real estate data analysis firm reported Tuesday. Southern California was among the best performing regions in the country, according to Irvine-...
Tags: Foreclosures, Real Estate
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Get ready for likely gas price increase when California taxes go up
It's probably the last thing that California motorists want to hear: the state's excise tax on gasoline will rise by 3.5 cents a gallon on July 1. The increase will take the state's excise tax to up to 39.5 cents a gallon for every gallon of gasoline...
Tags: Gasoline Industry, Petroleum Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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Toyota releases convertible concept of GT86 ahead of Geneva
Almost since the day Toyota and Scion debuted the FR-S sports car, there was conjecture that a convertible version would eventually follow. On Friday, the drop-top's prospects got a lot better. Toyota's UK office announced it would be bringing the FT-...
Tags: Scion, Subaru, Passenger Cars, Toyota, Ford
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Volkswagen to unveil 261-mpg car at Geneva Motor Show
Volkswagen plans to bring a 261-mpg production car to the Geneva Motor Show next week. Unfortunately, the company won't be bringing it to the U.S. Ever. That's the official word on the two-seat, carbon-fiber, plug-in hybrid. However, the featherweight...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Toyota, Volkswagen, Prius, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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California gas prices peak; pump pain changes U.S. driving habits
California gasoline prices may have already peaked for the first half of the year and should head lower soon, analysts said. Meanwhile, nationwide gasoline price averages over the first two months of the year rose at such a blistering rate that...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Energy Saving, Market and Exchange, Gasoline Industry, Commodity Markets
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J.C. Penney reports another loss in fourth quarter; sales slide 28%
J.C. Penney Co. is falling deeper into a rut, reporting yet another quarter of tanking sales and net loss as the department store chain struggles in its reinvention. The Plano, Texas, company reported a net loss of $552 million, or $2.51 a share, in its...
Tags: Martha Stewart, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, JC Penney Company Inc., Sears, Target
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Median home price posts biggest gain since 2005, Realtors say
One measure of national home prices rose last month with a vigor not seen since the bubble days as the number of foreclosed homes and other distressed properties on the market shrank. The median sales price for previously owned U.S. homes rose 12.3%...
Tags: Foreclosures, Inventories, Services and Shopping, Real Estate Sellers, Real Estate Sales
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Sony’s PS4 presentation leaves gamers with questions, few answers
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesCRITIC’S NOTEBOOK On Wednesday evening in New York, Sony threw one of the biggest magic shows of the year. “PlayStation ...... -
Fewer Americans are stuck in underwater mortgages
Nearly 2 million Americans got out of negative equity positions as home prices rose last quarter, according to new estimates. Negative equity fell to 27.5% of all U.S. homeowners with mortgages in last year's fourth quarter, compared with 31.1% during...
Tags: Inventories, Mortgages, Services and Shopping, Financial and Business Services, Real Estate
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Inflation remains tame, but so do gains in earnings
WASHINGTON -- Despite worry in some corners about the Federal Reserve's stimulus efforts stoking inflation, there continues to be little indication that consumer prices are heading higher. The consumer price index was flat in January for the second...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Economy, Business and Finance, Market and Exchange, Inflation and Deflation, Consumers
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Bank of Japan unveils bold plan to lift economy, combat deflation
Japan's central bank took a massive bet to reset its economy and pull out of nearly two decades of deflation. The Bank of Japan announced an aggressive and ambitious plan Thursday to expand its purchase of long-term bonds and double the amount of...
Tags: Federal Reserve, General Motors Corp., Sales, Central Bank, Electronics
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Social Security cutters distort 'accuracy' of chained CPI, again!
Ed Lorenzen, a representative of a clutch of Washington groups aiming to cut Social Security benefits for you and me, takes issue with my recent blog post calling out one of their "reforms" as a stealthy, and deceitful, benefit cut. Lorenzen even...
Tags: Social Security, Economy, Business and Finance, Market and Exchange, Inflation and Deflation, Consumers
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