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With the market down three weeks in a row, investors are understandably grim. But there is a silver lining.


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A more upbeat outlook on jobs pushed Americans’ confidence in the economy higher in December for the second month in a row, a survey released Tuesday said.







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THE war of the Reits between MacarthurCook Industrial (MI-Reit) in one corner and Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT) in the other hit a new level yesterday when both firms called trading halts to make announcements.
Their simmering row has mostly been confined to full-page newspaper advertisements but it has intensified in the run-up to Monday’s key meeting to vote on MI-Reit’s financing plans.
CIT … more

Reuters – European shares followed Wall Street higher on Monday on optimism about the third-quarter earnings season, while the dollar gained for the second session in a row.

ELECTRICITY charges will go up by 12.5 per cent from tomorrow on the back of higher fuel prices, utility provider SP Services said yesterday.
Electricity will cost households 21.69 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh), up from the current 19.28 cents.
This is the second quarter in a row that tariffs, which are revised every quarter, are going up.
Families in three-room HDB flats will pay on average about… more

Home prices rose for the third month in a row, a closely watched index said Tuesday. The index is down about 33 percent from the peak in mid-2006.