Which of the following statements is true according to what you hear?

In several metropolitan areas, from Miami to Riverside, Calif., where the real estate market is white hot, rapidly rising prices are luring a growing number of ordinary people into buying and selling residences they do not intend to occupy, despite warnings from some economists that prices cannot continue to rise as steeply as they have in the last few years.

There is some evidence that the foreign firm affiliates in this country have developed rapidly without having a decisive effect on the technological capacities and export competitiveness of the country’s local firms. The local content of processed exports and evolution of domestic exports tend to indicate that there are limited linkages between the two.