In a sign that the economy is still sluggish, sales of new homes fell .6% in March, the Commerce Department reported today.

The numbers from March were 30.6%below those of February 2008.

Sales of new homes were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 356,000, which projects what the rate would have been had sales been at that level all year.

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