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Home prices in 20 major U.S. cities were down 6.1 percent on average in thepast year as of October, according to the Case-Shiller price indexreleased Wednesday by Standard & Poor's.
Since October 2006, pricesin 10 cities fell 6.7 percent -- a record drop. The prior largest decline was6.3 percent, reached in April 1991.
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