Good news and bad news this week. Investors show their strong belief in Trump and Panama by over subscribing to the $220 million bond while the housing market in the U.S. is in turmoil. We continue to see people come to Panama from the U.S. looking for a better deal and a safe haven, but the numbers are significantly lower than past years. Will this housing turmoil affect Panama, absolutely, as far as the North American market goes, but Panama also attracts people from all over the world and the dollar weakness is making us more attractive to European buyers and political instability in nearby countries makes Panama a viable alternative.

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"We have not seen a nationwide decline in housing like this
since the Great Depression," Stumpf said at a Merrill Lynch &
Co banking conference in New York.


   



"I don't think we're in the ninth inning of unwinding
this," he continued, using a baseball reference. "If we are,
it's an extra-inning game."

Read the whole story here at Reuters....



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