" This is Money Markets & More for this Tuesday July 7 2009. From the newsroom at the MarketWatch radio network and Adrian Mitchell. Coming up -- fashionable male is no longer waiting to exhale. And shopping for a segue at best buy. But first this."
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" Well -- quarter bring better news on housing powered John word -- looked into his crystal ball and found that opportunity could be well you know. If you listen closely you can hear -- knocking at some good news about the housing market. Home prices after tumbling the last year. Actually showed signs of life this spring in cities like Dallas San Francisco Boston and Washington. And Denver for a free fall at least has stopped. Especially in areas where. We don't see a lot of foreclosure activity. That home prices have stabilized MarketWatch real estate editor Steve -- it's looking like we're off the bottom ever so slightly and we should start to edge up in home prices the rest of the year the exception he says. Those parts of the country still -- by persistent home foreclosures. Regular suspects here California Arizona Florida and Nevada and those states skirt SanDisk could still see home price declines during the second half of this seat -- I'm John Wordock from the news from -- marketwatch.com. Is nobody better days nobody even close."
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" You know in my little scooters bikes scooters like it is if you go to some cities you see people on those subways and we -- they -- may -- and everything they look really -- very directly I think candidate but at about a couple dozen stories on the west coast in California and Oregon. And a Washington State their third testing outselling these things because they feel it's a logical extension of their brand because electric vehicle. They sell electronics so. They're doing all kinds of things like -- against this highway is they have come electric bikes later this month are gonna start selling. This some electric motorcycle that gets 45 miles between charge ups and just. Apparently plug it into the wall in charge -- up. This sort of make the in store demo really exciting for the people in the -- of easing -- Actually primitive and LA times asked them out I guess they do via test driving out of her own life. But the outlook -- Here's the city they're trying to pick at a news weirdest thing I get run over by freezing personal drama out of -- thing I didn't put up. So -- it's it remains to be seen whether it may actually work for them them. The prices are are. Kind of a big range anywhere from about 300 to about 12000 dollars. -- aren't cheap -- and introduced it. I guess you were -- but they've they figure that their core. Customer which is -- from their mid twenties about fifty years old figured it the interest something like this at an impulse purchase you know would -- to best by the added it again 99 dollar microwave and came moments anyway. Yeah isn't gonna work -- the life would like that match from. They but they Felix's that they wanna get in on the ground floor because really. These electric vehicles are still kind of in their infancy at this point and I guess they wanna be on the cutting -- so land they do become. More common and hopefully the price comes down to obeyed the place for people think four of these items is of the first. Sort of regular -- as opposed to -- going to our government there and stories are only available at sick of this equity vehicles only at Safeway stores aren't that many of them and not like the best but scooters for example a variety exclusive there is at -- the store here in town and then you know and you go there and to get that and I've never really thought of you know having super store and sell this kind of thing -- it -- ago the best buying at -- a dvd and a motor scooter I guess they couldn't have picked a better time you know -- that gas prices have come down quite a bit. Still not cheap and people aren't looking for them the alternative way where -- their book and go green and I mean some of these yeah. Vehicles only get about eight miles between charges for some -- maybe that's enough. To get him to work Chris that criticism with a lot of these big box stores as you go there and the -- is selling you whatever it is says -- and up without it. It seems like expert for that to work for them. They're gonna have to really train their employees to to not only provide the low price that the information. And they seem to be doing and that's probably why. It's and so few stores right now because they they are training there they are trained people on these and also their Geek Squad which will come fix your computer whatever they're also being trained to service these vehicles as well. Right maybe they can really trust from not make it -- computer rankings. Are all instructed their act on this -- in anger and got a night began had a great idea let best China had our thanks and they can't."
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