It’s Friday! If you’ve been here before you probably know what that means, if you’re new here.. Welcome! It’s time for our regular end of the week news round up and economic open-topic discussion. Here are a few stories to kick off the weekend:
–Vancouver house prices show steepest drop nationwide
–BC real estate market now ‘balanced’
–Housing industry creates bewildering statistics
–Vancity abandons interest rate increase
–Olympic rentals for fun and non-profit
–Canada scores B+ on economic report card
–BMO expects recovery to be better than expected
–US jobless numbers take a jump
–Canada will lag US recovery
–CHEK-TV employees raise money to buy station
–Sub-primal in Canada
–Uberbear doom n’ gloom for stocks?
So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!