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Realtors ® are excited to see rising numbers of first - time, lower - income and minority homebuyers accessing FHA programs while the forward fund continues to strengthen.

In this video, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun talks about the decline in mortgage applications, the small increase in pending sales, signs of a stabilizing market, rising numbers of first - time homebuyers and their effects on wealth inequality.

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The number of Chinese visitors to Hong Kong grew in July, the first rise in more than a year.

Results from First Data Corp. and Visa showed a surge in consumer spending since the tax overhaul; the regional banks showed improving loan growth; and numbers from the real estate investment trusts told a story of rising demand and favorable deregulation, the «Mad Money» host said.

When market research first rose to prominence in Canada in the 1980s, random digital dialing generated lists of numbers for call centre agents to try.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and their colleagues looked at myocardial infarction rates in Sweden since 1987 and found that the number of heart attacks rose about 5 percent during the first week of daylight saving time (called summer time in Europe).

If that is the case, investment will not rise, except temporarily in the form of unwanted investment as inventory rises (lower consumption leaves goods unsold, which makes it seem at first as if point number 4 above is occurring).

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

The number of global monthly active users rose to 310 million during the first quarter from 305 million in the previous quarter.

The numbers: The productivity of American businesses rose 0.7 % in the first quarter, but there's little sign of long - term improvement in what's been...

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

The number of centi - billionaires may be on the rise with Bezos first topping that milestone in November and Gates close behind with about $ 90 billion.

Feb 8 Twitter Inc on Thursday reported its first quarterly net profit and topped Wall Street targets as video ad sales rose, but the number of people using the social network fell short of expectations as Twitter shut down fake accounts.

The rising rate environment that Canadian investors have been anticipating for a number of years has finally arrived after the Bank of Canada raised its overnight lending rate for the first time since 2010 earlier this summer.

However, after the rise of the first civilizations some 5,000 years ago, powerful conquerors have forced a number of different social groups to enter into a compulsory form of unity.

In an earlier column in First Things («The Rich, the Poor, and Reaganomics» [April 1991]-RRB-, I predicted that the number of poor people, after declining under Reagan, would rise under Bush despite the latter's «kinder, gentler» rhetoric.

The first is that the people of Tampa and Cleveland rose up in huge numbers and overwhelmed the fans of the other 13 teams.

And with Major League Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

The numbers didn't think so; A&M had sunk all the way to 61st in the F / + rankings, while Auburn had risen to first on the power of wins over LSU and Ole Miss and the fact that the MSU loss was based partially in turnovers.

Both the clubs have state of the art facilities for their youth academies that have seen a number of youngsters make meteoric rises into regular first team football.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - With a vast array of known benefits from the age - old practice, the number of mothers who first turn to breastfeeding in this country is on the rise.

According to First Candle, a nonprofit educational organization on sleep - safety, «The number of babies who die in adult beds and other unsafe sleep environments (i.e.: an armchair or couch) is on the rise.

According to the most current study, the number of women who choose to breastfeed in the United States continues to rise, with 77 percent of new moms reporting they at least breastfed their babies for the first few months of their life, if not for a year — or years.

Implementation of this intervention may contribute to the achievement of the following targets: Global nutrition targets Target 1: 40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Target 4: No increase in childhood overweight Target 5: Increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in first 6 months up to at least 50 % Global NCD targets Target 7: Halt the rise in diabetes and obesity

We understood that the right way to halt the unrestrained rise in crime we saw in the 1980s and early 1990s and to cut the number of young people in custody was to stop them turning to crime in the first place.

Although considered a relatively mild winter, with late January and February temperatures above average, the devastatingly cold weather experienced from late November through to early January saw the number of deaths rise above the national average, peaking during the first week of January 2011 with almost 3500 more deaths than the five - year average for that time of year.

The number of New Yorkers living without health insurance rose significantly during the first year of the Trump presidency, according to a new Gallup survey.

The Lib Dems saw their number of seats rise to 12 during the recent election, including Sir Vince's return to a London seat he first won in 1997.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, a rising star in the Democratic firmament, was the first to float the idea back in 2016, citing evidence from other countries — including Canada — where such sites have existed for years, that these sites have helped reduce the numbers of people abusing heroin, and, more importantly, cut down on overdoses.

According to the Global Terrorism Database, the number of terrorist attacks with fatalities in Western Europe has recently started to rise for the first time since the 1970s: Source: Global Terrorism...

Yet while Britain's First Past the Post acts against the representation of women, the fact that the number of women candidates is going up and that the ERS are able to project a rise in women does show that parties can move forwards in this area.

According to NHS figures cited in The Independent, the number of people placed on CTOs has risen steadily since they were first brought in.

What does spring out of Colorado's model is that of the numbers: in the first month of commercial sales, the state collected $ 2 million (# 1.21 million) in «recreational» sales alone, with the tally rising to $ 3.2 million (# 1.93 million) with existing medical marijuana dispensaries factored in.

In Scotland, humanist marriages gained legal recognition in 2005, and have risen in number from 85 in the first year to over 4,900 in 2016, overtaking the Church of Scotland in the process.

The ad repeats some of Cuomo's marquee first - term accomplishments — legalizing same - sex marriage, changing the tax code to trim middle class rates and rising job numbers before pivoting to Hochul.

The disparity between the numbers of votes and the number of seats obtained by the smaller parties gave rise to increased calls for replacement of the «first - past - the - post» voting system with a more proportional system.

In Scotland, humanist marriages gained legal recognition in 2005, and have proven hugely popular since - rising in number from 80 in the first year to over 4,300 in 2015, overtaking the Church of Scotland in the process.

County Flu Cases Continue To Rise The number of laboratory confirmed cases of influenza in Oneida County has more than quadrupled since first reported less than two weeks ago, Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

Appearing before the home affairs select committee for the first time since his appointment to the job last month, Javid said the Home Office had identified 63 possible Windrush cases of wrongful removal and warned the number could rise.

The groups say the number of millionaires in the state has risen dramatically since 2009 when a tax on the temporary tax on the wealthy was first enacted.

While Mark - Viverito has touted her historic rise to be the first Latina at the helm of the council, a number of council members expressed their concern over the lack of African Americans inside top positions.

- The latest unemployment figures were published, showing the number of UK jobless has risen for the first time in two years

NIH Director Elias Zerhouni says he hopes to protect the number of funded investigators by shifting money from some clinical and center grants that expire in 2006 into new and competing grants, which will rise for the first time since 2003.

Moreover, first - year enrollments jumped by 14 % between 1999 and 2001, suggesting that the number of degrees is likely to rise in the next few years.

In the first years of his work as a minister, the number of publications by Russian researchers began to grow, but the rise stopped completely since 2009,» says Onishchenko.

In Britain, the number of conceptions among teenage girls rose steadily through the 1980s from 55.9 per thousand women to 69.1 in 1990, falling for the first time only in 1991.

In cores from numerous ocean basins, they found that while the numbers of sharks remained steady before and after the extinction event, the ratio of ray - finned fish teeth to shark teeth and scales gradually rose, first doubling then becoming eight times more abundant 24 million years after the extinction event.

The study for the first time estimates the minimum number of locations in the human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy number variation (CNV) can give rise to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

If the GHCN's collection is treated as a more or less complete accounting of the available instrumental temperature record, then the number of stations rose steadily during the first half of the twentieth century, surged in the 1940s - 1970s, and then sharply declined afterward.