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London-based realtor Nested produced the 2017 Rental Index in conjunction with their recent Real Estate Index. The study illustrates the price of renting per square foot in 10 major US cities and a number of metropolises worldwide. The research conveys the minimum gross salary required to support an individual and a family of four in rented property based on the minimum space recommended for one person, and for four people respectively.

Some of the key findings:

We officially have a new definition ot "thin-skinned".

It has been another choppy, illiquid, volatile overnight session, which started with weakness out of China, whose Shanghai Composite dropped 20% into another bear market in early trading, then further slammed by news of a terrorist attack in Jakarta, only to rebound back over 3000 as the Chinese National Team decided to intrevene again, this time in the ChiNext small cap index, pushing it higher by 5.6%.

Two months after the Paris explosions of November 13, it appears that terrorism has struck again, this time in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta where moments ago, at least six bomb explosions, gunfire and casualties were reported, with at least one of the explosions taking place near the local UN office.

ANTARA NEWS REPORTS SIX EXPLOSIONS IN CENTRAL JAKARTA

JAKARTA POLICE SUSPECTS BOMB AT TRAFFIC POLICE POST: METRO TV

JAKARTA POLICE, GUNMEN CONTINUES SHOOTING: METRO TV