BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central city of Zhengzhou has asked residents to sell their second-hand homes to a local state-owned company and buy new ones instead, in a bid to reduce new-home inventories and boost the local property sector. Local state state-owned company Zhengzhou Urban Development Group Co. will buy 500 second-hand homes from April […]
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Oil prices gain amid steep drop in inventories as gasoline stockpiles rise
Oil futures rallied amid the largest crude inventory drop since July, which was offset by an increase in gasoline stockpiles. West Texas Intermediate (CL=F) gained almost 1% to settle at $75.09 a barrel. Brent (BZ=F), the international benchmark price, rose fractionally to close at $80.04 per barrel. Crude inventories decreased by 9.23 million barrels last […]