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The foreclosure rate in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford area fell 0.1 percentage points in July compared with the same period in 2011, CoreLogic said Tuesday.
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By PBN Staff
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The national foreclosure inventory remains near all-time highs, with 4.12 percent of all active mortgages in the foreclosure pipeline, according to the May Mortgage Monitor report released Monday by Lender Processing Services.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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By this time next year, Sovereign Bank will have completed its national transformation to Santander Bank, part of the Spanish-owned Banco Santander SA, one of the largest banks in the world.
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By Michael Souza |
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Exports from Rhode Island rose 13.2 percent in June after plunging 23.1 percent in May, according to an international trade statistics report from e-forecasting.com.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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Rhode Island’s gasoline prices rose 7 cents this week. The jump marks the first increase in Ocean State pump prices in 13 weeks, according to AAA Southern New England.
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By PBN Staff
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Rhode Island’s unemployment rate dropped for the first time in three months to 11 percent in May, a two-tenths of a percentage point decrease from April, the R.I. Department of Labor reported Friday.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Rhode Island’s economic recovery continues but is doing so at a slower pace, according to University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro’s Current Conditions Index.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Gas prices in Rhode Island dropped another 4 cents this week, marking the fourth consecutive week of declines, according to AAA Southern New England.
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By PBN Staff
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Massachusetts’ real gross state product increased at a 4 percent annualized rate during the second quarter, according to the Current Economic Index report released Friday by MassBenchmarks.
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By PBN Staff
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Rhode Island ranked No. 32 across the nation for economic growth during 2011, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |