Tag: cities

February 17, 2015 0

Home Prices Decline in 64 of 70 Tracked Chinese Cities; Asymmetric Central Bank

By News Desk

Bloomberg reports China Property Recovery Fails to Gain Traction With Prices Dropping . Prices fell in 64 cities from the previous month, compared with 65 in December, and were unchanged in four, according to data from the bureau of statistics on Tuesday. Average prices fell 5.1 percent from a year earlier, the biggest drop on record, according to Tom Orlik, chief Asia economist at Bloomberg Intelligence.

June 12, 2014 0

Iraq Splinters Into Pieces, Al Qaeda in Control of Several Cities, Kurds Take Oil City Kirkuk; Thank George Bush and the Neocons; Iraq Before and…

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The Financial Times reports Iraq Slides Further Into Turmoil as Kurds Take Oil City Kirkuk . Iraq’s Shia-dominated government launched air strikes on Sunni insurgent positions in and around the city of Mosul on Thursday as Islamist forces hurtled toward the capital and Kurdish troops seized control of the key oil city of Kirkuk