U.S. House Prices up 0.6%

Another index of how the U.S. economy has resumed its march...

U.S. house prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in July, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported Tuesday. That takes the year-over-year gain was 5.8%.

Over 12 months, the agency says, every region was positive, led by the 9.4% rise in the Mountain region, which comprises Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

The weakest gain was the 2.1% advance in New England, which is Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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