While in Holbat sixteen percent of people sold their properties sold for less than what they paid. If you want to see your home double in values statistics show you might hold onto your property from more than seventeen years. 

 

 

The US president says he wants the Congressional leaders to maintain the momentum of the economy. Barack Obama met Republican leaders a week up to the start of the new Congress. 

 

 

I'm going to be listening to everybody around this table, and I'm hopeful that with a spirit of cooperation putting America first, we can be in a position where at the end of this year we'll be looked back and say we are that much better off than we were when we started the year. 

 

 

So let's go to the markets. Wall Street ended slightly low, in London the FTSE lost around half a percent. Checking commodity prices. WTC is trading at 46 US dollars a barrel, Tapies crude is trading at 48 US dollars a barrel, gold is trading at 1230 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is buying eighty-two US cents, sixty-nine euro cents, fifty-four pence sterling.