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Mar 1st, 2012
(Reuters) - A boy eats bread as others wait in front of a bakery shop during winter in Al Qusayr, a city in western Syria about 4.8km (3 miles) southwest of Homs, March 1, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (SYRIA - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD) -
By Mridhula Raghavan (Reuters) - Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc reported stronger-than-expected results on higher average selling prices and booked its highest quarterly orders in seven years, sending its shares up 7 percent. Record-low interest rates and rising rents have encouraged more Americans to buy homes after the housing market bust, ... [Full Article]
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