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 A new property report reveals ninety percent of homes being resold for making a profit according to the figures from CoLogic. Sydney was the best performing capital city with just 2.6 percent of owners making a loss in the September quarter. 

 
While in Holbat sixteen percent of people sold their properties sold for less than what they paid. If you want to see your home double in values statistics show you might hold onto your property from more than seventeen years. 
 
 
The US president says he wants the Congressional leaders to maintain the momentum1 of the economy. Barack Obama met Republican leaders a week up to the start of the new Congress. 
 
 
I'm going to be listening to everybody around this table, and I'm hopeful that with a spirit of cooperation putting America first, we can be in a position where at the end of this year we'll be looked back and say we are that much better off than we were when we started the year. 
 
 
So let's go to the markets. Wall Street ended slightly low, in London the FTSE lost around half a percent. Checking commodity prices. WTC is trading at 46 US dollars a barrel, Tapies crude is trading at 48 US dollars a barrel, gold is trading at 1230 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is buying eighty-two US cents, sixty-nine euro cents, fifty-four pence sterling2. 

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1 momentum DjZy8     
n.动力，冲力，势头；动量
参考例句：
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
2 sterling yG8z6     
adj.英币的(纯粹的，货真价实的)；n.英国货币(英镑)
参考例句：
  • Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率？
  • Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺，这有助于减轻通胀压力。

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