Amazon.com Cuts Price Of Kindle To $189 From $259

Bridges Ventures, Chancerygate Invest In London Student Housing

California Pizza Down Nearly 10%

Adidas Sees Soccer Sales Of At Least $1.9 Billion

Retail Stocks Mixed As China Relaxes Currency Peg

Here are some of the early-market movers for Monday. 

Through the boom years of the last decade, Beijing printed yuan to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange markets. That made the yuan and Chinese products on U.S. store shelves artificially cheap, and imports from China, coupled with higher prices for imported oil, pushed the U.S. trade deficit to more than 5% of GDP from 2004 to 2008.

Ralcorp Buying AIPC For $1.2 Billon

Corn Products To Pay $1.3B For Akzo's Nat'l Starch

Hammerson Buys 75% In Battery Retail Park For GBP49.5 Million

The Obama administration's flagship effort to help people in danger of losing their homes is falling flat.


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The number of customers applying for mortgages jumped last week, a sign that the market could be stabilizing after dropping off sharply last month.


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Government-sponsored mortgage purchasers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to delist their shares from the New York Stock Exchange.


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Homebuyers may get an extra three months to finish qualifying for federal tax incentives that boosted home sales this spring.


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Higher monthly fees may be in the works for consumers who take out home loans guaranteed by the FHA, the primary source of mortgages for first-time homebuyers.


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The foreclosure crisis appears to be leveling off. The number of people facing foreclosure is nearly flat from a year ago. Still, the number of foreclosures remains extraordinarily high.


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The number of customers applying for a mortgage to purchase a property fell to the lowest level in 13 years last week.


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