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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Sales of new single-family homes rose 4.4 percent from October to November, the U.S. Commerce Department said Thursday.
Sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 377,000 from a revised October rate of 361,000.
Sales also rose 15.3 percent more than the annual rate of 327,000 from November 2011.
The Commerce Department said the average price for a new home sold in November was $299,700, up from $278,900, in October.
The seasonally adjusted estimate of how many new homes were on the market at the end of the month was 149,000, which is 2,000 more than October and represents a 4.7-month supply at the current rate of sales.
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Nobel Energy of Houston, which discovered Israel's big gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, is pressing the government to decide soon on an energy export policy as the prospect of an undersea pipeline to Turkey gains credibility.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
mid growing concerns about security threats from Syria and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has greatly reduced planned defense budget cuts.
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