Americans are struggling to cope with the fastest rise in the cost of living for 17 years as one in every 464 US households face the real risk of losing their homes, two sets of data showed today.
Official inflation statistics published by Washington’s Labour Department showed that consumer prices rose by 0.8 per cent in [...]

Weighed down by the credit crunch and high inflation, the global house price boom has ended, according to our latest survey of house price indicators.
Only 13 countries in which dwelling price indices are regularly published saw prices rise during the year to end Q1 2008, while 21 countries saw dwelling prices fall in real terms, [...]