"nightly business repo" is made poible by: this pgram was made possible by contributions to ur pbs station from viewe like you. thank you. >> jeff: good evening, eryone. a much bigger increase tha forecast. sas of new homes jumped 9.6% in july. could be the housing market is turning? scott gurvey repts. >> reporter: it was the foth straight month of increased new homeales and although this is a number with a wide marn of error, it did encouragthose who see a bottom in housg. beth ann bovino of standd and poor'sotes there has also been increased bung of distressed properties and existg homes. >> those homeowners were actually free to move and actuly buy something elwhere. you're starting to see it ickle through. will it coinue through next year? we, we do expect that is something that igoing to see some... sically get some stabily and continue through next year,lthough we're not expecting any kindf blockbuster sales rough this ar or the next. it's just somethinthat we'll slowly climb out of at hole. >> reporter: stos in the home constructionector began llying in early july. but maury harris

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both sides have reted i think trying to -- way trying to fix this soon as poible. >> reporter: andrew that kind of ise by amerin issues these things all ld to the question of the economic - affected relation overall? >> sytomatic of wat mexicans perceive to be a lack of fairness in dealings, a lac of appreciatiofor how much mexico chaed in the last decade, to play by the erican rules. ironically,exico like a lot other emerging marketsn developingcountries, they to medicine that was pscribed to th by the clton years, by bo rin darry sommers and implemented very respoible licy and this year mexico uffering a result, many ways of financial contagion that emanated here in t united states that traveed from north to south as owe pitivessed to in the '90s whereou had the bloup in argeina and turkey and mexico. so, for mexican middle class peop whose living standads are being severely h, gdp i mexi last quarte fell 10%. now that's largely resul also of the swine fluoming on top . this but there a feeling that we play by the american rules but now the u.s.asn't abided by its own prescription,

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