Sales of existing homes in U.S. rise to an eight-month high

... "Fundamentally, things are still on pretty good footing," Omair Sharif, a U.S. economist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut, said before the report. "Job growth has accelerated, and that's going to be a positive for housing demand." ...

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