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Eight Ways To Profit As The U.S. Housing Recovery Gathers Steam

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:15:11 GMT

If you were interested in homes for anything other than personal shelter, November was a pretty discouraging month, with continuing gloom the most prominent feature of virtually every report issued on the housing sector.[More...]

Housing Has Never Been More Affordable

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:36:24 GMT

The release of the Case-Schiller Home Price Index is just one of the plethora of housing indicators due to be released this week. We bought home builders was based on low supply and the prospect of high demand. In fact, last week the National Association of Homebuilders released its Housing...[More...]

Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Update

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:33:46 GMT

There is no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the actions of owners and executives of publicly traded companies. That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of data for investors, both institutional and individual.[More...]

Pulte Homes Moves To The Sell-Block

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:23 GMT

On Wednesday we wrote a piece talking about the strange upgrade of Pulte Homes (PHM) by an analyst at Citigroup (C). At that time (Upgrade Trumps Macro-Economics for Homebuilders), we reiterated our [More...]

Upgrade Trumps Macro-Economics For Homebuilders

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:49 GMT

This morning the Commerce Department released figures that homebuilding activity in the U.S. had unexpectedly fallen in October. The reasoning was that increased joblessness in addition to doubts that the homebuyer tax credit would be renewed weighed on homebuilders. Homebuilders slipped to an annual pace of only 529,000 homes which is 11% lower than last year and the lowest result since April. Multifamily homes such as condos and townhouses slumped 35 percent, far more than single family homes. Economists had expected to see a slight rise in homebuilding activity in the month, which only adds to the surprise. Economists, always ready with an answer, pointed out that the wettest October in century could have been a factor. Building permits also saw an unexpected drop to only 552,000 annual rate.[More...]

Housing Starts, Permits Plunge

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:36:38 GMT

In October, Housing Starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just 529,000, a 10.6% decline from September and down 30.7% from a year ago.? That puts housing starts at their lowest level since April, and takes a lot of steam out of the incipient economic recovery.[More...]

US Equity Movers and Shakers, Mid-Session, 11th November

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:40 GMT

S&P 500 - Risers Pulte Homes Inc. (PHM) $10.04 +6.13% Lennar Corp. Class A (LEN) $15.17 +6.08% KB Home (KBH) $15.56 +5.99% D R Horton Inc. (DHI) $12.30 +5.18% M B I A Inc. (MBI) $3.69 +4.83% Marshall & Ilsley (MI) $5.48 +4.77% N Y Times Class A (NYT) $9.07 +4.61% Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) $8.49 +4.17% Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) $13.66 +4.04% Developers Diversified Reality (DDR) $8.84 +3.88% S&P 500 - Fallers Macy's Inc. (M) $17.83 -8.23% Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) $34.63 -5.38% Gamestop Corp. (GME) $24.14 -4.13% American International Group Inc. (AIG) $36.24 -3.59% Owens-Illinois Inc. (OI) $33.90 -2.45% Southwestern Energy (SWN) $44.42 -2.40% Motorola Inc. (MOT) $8.64[More...]

Wall Street Ends Volatile Session Mixed, Merck (NYSE: MRK) Soars

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:15:28 GMT

US stocks finished mostly higher on Wednesday after Federal Reserve left benchmark interest rate unchanged at near zero and said that it will keep them low for an extended period.[More...]

US Stock Futures Rise Ahead Of Fed, Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) Eyed

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:59:30 GMT

US stock futures advanced on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of the US Federal Reserve meeting.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Up in Choppy Session, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Drops

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:25:12 GMT

US stocks mustered only tiny gains on Wednesday, despite stronger-than-expected durable goods and housing data.[More...]

Permits to build Twin Cities homes increase, but still off peak: November data signaled more improvement, with caveats.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:08:00 GMT

Dec. 2--In another sign that the Twin Cities housing market is on the mend, the number of residential building permits issued last month grew 28 percent over November 2008.
Permitted units were also 37 percent higher, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Builders Association of the Twin Cities.
November saw the highest number of units permitted for any month this year; total permits in November were the third-highest in 2009.

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Eight Ways To Profit As The U.S. Housing Recovery Gathers Steam

Housing Has Never Been More Affordable

Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Update

Pulte Homes Moves To The Sell-Block

Upgrade Trumps Macro-Economics For Homebuilders

Housing Starts, Permits Plunge

US Equity Movers and Shakers, Mid-Session, 11th November

Wall Street Ends Volatile Session Mixed, Merck (NYSE: MRK) Soars

US Stock Futures Rise Ahead Of Fed, Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) Eyed

Wall Street Ends Up in Choppy Session, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Drops

Permits to build Twin Cities homes increase, but still off peak: November data signaled more improvement, with caveats.

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