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Bank of America stated this week that he would be raising the stakes in China Construction Bank Corp to close to $1.86 billion. This is a reflection of the initial investment that they made three years ago and is a signal that they have confidence in the bank prospects in China.

The increased stake also squashes rumors that Bank of America was in a rush to sell its stake to offset woes back home. Bank of America has posted dismal results for three quarters running, hammered last year by bad trading bets and this year by ballooning losses on home-equity loans and other credit exposure. The bank posted a 77% plunge in first-quarter profit and has given a bleak outlook for the rest of this year.

Karl Case – the co-founder – of a home price index has said that more auctions of foreclosed properties are working to remove the inventory from the housing market and could lead to a fast recovery. “I think we’re going to see some signs of life in the next few months,” Case, an economics professor at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. “The market is beginning to clear somewhat. There is some good news in this.”

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The Housing Industry Association is looking forward to the federal budget in hopes that it will help to increase the housing and make it more affordable for consumers. Ron Silberberg – the HIA manager – stated that the $21.7 billion will help to relieve the interest rate pressures and the infrastructure skills and investments in order to reduce the constraints that many people are facing.

“Measures aimed at boosting the supply of new housing along with desperately needed urban infrastructure will assist in pegging the gap between underlying demand and current production,” Dr Siberberg said in a statement.