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Sales of existing homes is the indicator helping to trace the number of sold houses per year on the existing home market. Also it can assist in forecasting about current confidence of buyers (consumer optimism) and their sentiment to buy precious assets. Index value is subject to great season fluctuations characterizing real estate market. Increase in volume of construction is closely related with the growth of income of population and is favorable towards economic growth. The data on the amount of sol houses is published on the fourth week of every month at 10:00 EST (New York). Market respond to this index is weak. Index growth is a positive factor for consolidation of national currency.

Apart from Japan, the countries with the second economic power (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea) are also active in the transaction. * At certain periods, liquidity can be very low and visible for a very small price movement (no change in the relatively long time). A small price movemen allows breakout level of previous trends that occurred in the American market to form, so there is a phase of consolidation.