Report on housing starts show slowest construction pace since 1991

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Analysts were bracing for new numbers on housing construction today. They had expected a decline of 1.6 percent, but construction starts actually dropped by a whopping 6.3 percent. Guest: David Wyss, economist at Standard & Poor’s

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