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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChanceIs who wrote (201672)	5/11/2009 1:03:38 PM
From: John Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

">>>Morgan Stanley alone could see 45 per cent of its commercial portfolio value wiped out<<<" Can they just : charge it ? or: TARP it.

To: ChanceIs who wrote (201672)	5/11/2009 1:13:29 PM
From: Perspective	Respond to of 306849

<Today, Prof. Case sees the first faint signs of a bottom in the housing market, although this is not yet reflected in his index. “There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that people are showing up at open houses. Properties are trading in higher numbers. I could be wrong, but I listen to the street, and the street's talkin' a little bit now.”> I think even the bears are too optimistic on this front. The rate of descent is certainly leveling off, but it takes more than having the second derivative go positive to stop a trend like this: `BC