Tuesday, May 8, 2007

UPDATE 2-Canada housing starts crimped by rural weakness

(Reuters) - April starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annualized level of 211,900 units from an upwardly revised 214,000 in March. The average expectation of analysts was for 215,000 starts.

"Canada's housing market is slowly starting to cool down as rising home prices eat into affordability, Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a note.


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