EghtesadOnline: The number of home sales in the current fiscal year (started March 20) has been on the rise, but that does not necessarily mean the housing sector has successfully managed to escape recession, the head of Tehran Association of Realtors said.

EghtesadOnline: Several U.S. states studied by S&P Global Ratings are ill-equipped to deal with an economic recession , hampered by the slow rebound in U.S. economic growth after the damage wrought by the Great Recession.