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Morning Mortgage Meltdown: Home Sales ... Up?

What's this? A tiny scrap of good news amidst the market bloodletting?! Despite the constipated lending market, home sales nationwide actually scored a modest uptick in August of 7.4%, mostly due to dramatically reduced prices. Of course, this was pre-financial meltdown, so brace yourselves for those September numbers, people. [AP]