The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate from 0.5 to 0.75 percent. That means the party might be over on cheap interest rates, especially mortgages.
The Q2 2012 Federal Reserve's flow of funds report was released last Thursday. Household wealth decreased $321.9 billion to $62.67 trillion in Q2 2012. The losses were in stocks, mutual funds while real estate values increased. Below is a graph of annual household net worth and notice the Great Recession wealth wipe out in the below graph.
Although the agency said Portugal's austerity budget was "credible", it said the government would need "to implement sizeable consolidation measures from next year", as well as reverse stimulus measures this year, in order to get its debt levels under control.
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