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(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and the euro area are scheduled to provide quarterly growth readings in the coming week for the start of 2022, an early indication of how Russia’s war in Ukraine has affected two of the largest regions of the global economy.  U.S.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Inflation is often viewed as an economic phenomenon, with mostly economic effects. Policy makers today worry about what inflation will do to the housing market; they express concern about government borrowing costs.

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s property boom has left the tiny island state with a record low number of new homes for sale, threatening to undermine government efforts to calm the market.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Corporate bosses could always count on Singapore’s culture of obedience to herd small investors into lowball mergers or take-private deals. No longer.

(Bloomberg) -- Residents of more than 3,000 New York City buildings are bracing for a potential strike of doormen and other apartment workers, and anxieties are high as negotiations enter the final hours.

(Bloomberg) -- Nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has never led in the three campaigns she’s run for France’s top job. But she’s finally making it close.

(Bloomberg) -- Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. Russian buyers snapped up Dubai real estate in the first quarter of this year, climbing two places to fifth in a country ranking by brokerage Betterhomes.

(Bloomberg) -- Pittsburgh has been named the most affordable city for housing, as accommodation costs around the globe surge.  Hong Kong, long the world’s most expensive city for housing, ranked bottom of the 92 housing markets assessed in the Demographia International Housing study.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Scott Aitchison is one of several politicians in the running to lead Canada’s opposition Conservative Party. And one of his big ideas is something that would never fly — but should — in America’s opposition Republican Party: federal action to deregulate the housing sector.

(Bloomberg) -- Easing property curbs may do little to brighten the outlook for Chinese residential sales as weak home-buyer confidence remains a key hurdle, with Covid’s spread adding extra near-term threats, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.