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US existing-home sales rise at fastest pace in a year

Bloomberg Sales of previously owned US homes rebounded in February to fastest pace in almost a year, topping estimates and snapping a three-month streak of declines to offer a robust indication that the housing market is stabilising after last year’s slump. Contract closings increased 11.8 percent, the most since 2015, from January’s pace to a 5.51 million annual rate, the ...

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Trump’s ‘promises’ to the Rust Belt may haunt him

When General Motors idled its auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, this month, President Trump adopted a familiar strategy: He issued a nasty string of tweets blaming other people and promised, in effect, that he would restore the past. Trump’s angry, backward-looking approach may still appeal to some Rust Belt voters. But in the Ohio and Pennsylvania towns that helped win ...

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Italy gets good news about its banks

The banking industry hasn’t given Italy many reasons to celebrate. The country has stumbled from crisis to crisis, as it fought a rearguard action against the EU’s rules for handling failing lenders. The EU judges gave Rome a rare moment of joy. The bloc’s general court, its second-highest tribunal, ruled that the 2014 rescue of Banca Tercas SpA by the ...

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