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At least the housing market is showing some very small signs of relief. That's what people gather from the latest figures on home sales. Sales of new homes recorded an unexpected increase in September as median home prices dropped to the lowest level in four years. The Commerce Department reported Monday that sales of new single-family homes rose 2.7 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 464,000 homes. Economists had expected sales would drop from the August level.
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Is the end near for the newspaper industry? The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the USA Today all have an uphill battle in front of them. Ad spending and circulation continues to fall at the newspapers. The drop occurred nearly across the board during the six months that ended Sept. 30; the largest metropolitan dailies saw weekday circulation fall anywhere from 1.9 percent for The Washington Post, to 13.6 percent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, compared ...

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More problems ahead for one of New Jersey's largest newspapers - the Newark Star-Ledger. The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, will cut its newsroom staff about 40 percent by year’s end, one of the largest reductions in a single move by a major American paper. The paper will give buyouts to about 150 news employees who requested them, managers told employees on Friday, after years in which the paper resisted the broad newsroom cuts that have been become commonplace acro...

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Detroit Free Press

July 26, 2007

Ruth Spencer, popular Detroit Local 4 News consumer reporter quotes LeaseTrader.com in her daily tip to consumers. She advises all consumers to make sure to get all details on fees in the contract when shopping for an auto lease.

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MIAMI – (July 24, 2007) – Leasetrader.com, the company that lets you transfer out of your vehicle lease early, offers the following tips to help people become smarter consumers when shopping for a vehicle lease. The following lease tips are available athttp://www.leasetrader.com/lease_tips.aspx.

1) Choose your own vehicle lease company – You don’t have to settle for the leasing company provided by the auto establishment.

2) Request a le...