IMF: Housing market may slow US economy
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A cooling housing market is likely to trigger a slowdown in the U.S. economy next year and could weigh on the global economy as well, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday.
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As U.S. home purchases slow, an expected rise in demand for rentals will result in a spike in inflation, analysts say, citing studies showing housing costs have been under-reported by the government.
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A slowdown in the United States' housing market may have knocked as much as one percentage point off annual growth, but does not seem to have affected consumer demand much, a top Federal Reserve official said on Monday.
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International Monetary Fund chief  Rodrigo Rato called on policy makers on Sunday to be ready for  a slowdown in the United States, despite the prospect of strong  growth in the world economy, and to tackle rising price  pressures.
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U.S. housing industry economists on  Monday cautioned that rapid house price gains in some areas of  the country may not be sustainable.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said a slowdown in the U.S. housing market will limit economic expansion.
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US house prices grew at the slowest rate in thirty years in the second quarter, according to a closely-watched report from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight , providing further evidence of a cooling US housing market.
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U.S. housing industry economists on Monday cautioned that rapid house price gains in some areas of the country may not be sustainable.
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Housing prices in the UK, Australia and Spain may be poised to fall because of an expected increase in global interest rates, the International Monetary Fund said in its semi-annual World Economic Outlook.
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Wall Street may be on the defensive  this week if reports on housing and growth suggest the United  States economy is headed for an acute slowdown.
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The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that the risks of a global slowdown have increased due to higher interest rates, surging oil prices and an apparent cooling in the U.S. housing market that could slow the U.S. economy.
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The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns.
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The United States could face a prolonged economic downturn because of its subprime mortgage woes, but is unlikely to plunge into a recession, Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz said yesterday.
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Financial market turbulence has  noticeably hurt housing activity across the United States in  recent weeks but other sectors of the economy have so far been  spared, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Tuesday a decline in U.S. housing activity has caused some damage in subprime mortgage markets but was not hurting the overall economy.
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Global economic growth is likely to be dampened by the turbulence on world markets, the IMF says.
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The International Monetary Fund has singled out the British housing market as being in danger of a hard landing in a report on the global property boom.