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The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) released the results of its latest quarterly survey this week, which polls member firms to assess their upcoming hiring strategies and gauge expectations for economic growth. Fifty percent of the responding companies in the finance, insurance, and real estate category - which includes banks, mortgage lenders, and secondary market players, in addition to real estate-related businesses - said they expect to increase their payrolls over the next six months.

Home prices in the United States found their floor during the early part of 2010 and are expected to begin trending upward next year, according to a panel of elite economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics. They are projecting gains in home prices of 1.2 percent over the course of 2011. ""The housing recovery is intact, but tepid overall. Home prices have hit bottom,"" according to the group of economists.