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This Timber Company Is Bucking The Industry’s Falling Trend

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:12:39 GMT

Editor’s Note: Jim Stanton is attending to some family matters today, so Investment U columnist David Fessler is pinch-hitting for him. And in keeping with Jim’s usual “Sector Watch” theme on Mondays, David focuses on the timber area, explaining why the industry has witnessed a decline over the past 10 years. No matter whether you’re already invested in timber - or thinking about investing in it - you’ll need to know which three REITs to avoid and which one is handling the falling trend better than the rest. David has the answers[More...]

Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) Cuts Dividend 80 Percent, Who’s Next?

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:44:06 GMT

“Let’s take a quick look at these stocks moving lower right now. Timber producing Weyerhauser is cutting the dividend from 25 cents to 5 cents and that stock is moving lower, about 5% today.” Fox Business Network 7/7/2009 Weyerhaeuser Company (WY), which produces lumber and other forestry products, has now founded it necessary to chop down their dividend. Their lumber is often used by homebuilders and with housing starts still very low, it is still a very tough time for Weyerhaeuser. The company is expected to lose somewhere around[More...]

Permits & Starts Fall Again

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:38:00 GMT

Highlights include D.R. Horton, Inc. (DHI), Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY), Masco Corp. (MAS) and Whirlpool Corp. (WHR). Housing starts and permits is one area where "bad news" is really good news. Falling starts and permits will allow the huge inventory overhang of houses to be worked off. This is not without a cost, however -- it means that the Residential Investment part of GDP is off to a very weak start for the second quarter, and this despite it already being the smallest share of GDP on record in the first quarter. In April, building permits fell to a Seasonally[More...]

Daily Credit Market Summary: April 28 - Inside Day

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:18:25 GMT

Spreads were mixed in the US today with IG worse (though with a narrow range Inside Day as HY outperformed), HVOL wider, ExHVOL better, XO wider, and HY rallying. Indices generally outperformed intrinsics with skews widening in general as IG's skew decompressed as the index beat intrinsics, HVOL outperformed but widened the skew, ExHVOL outperformed pushing the skew wider, XO's skew increased as the index outperformed, and HY outperformed but narrowed the skew. The names having the largest impact on IG are International Lease Finance Corp. (-35.29bps) pushing IG 0.2bps tighter, and CIT Group Inc (+283.81bps) adding 1.35bps to IG. HVOL is more sensitive with International Lease Finance Corp. pushing it 0.93bps tighter, and CIT Group Inc contributing 6.25bps to HVOL's change today.[More...]

S&P 500 Stocks

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:35:00 GMT

The S&P 500 comprises of 500 large cap common stocks actively traded in the United States. The largees public companies that are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ are included in the S&P 500 index. The S&P 500 index was lunched in 1957 and is a value weighted index which is based on the 500 American stocks with the largest market capitalizations. The S&P 500 is the most widely followed index After the Dow Jones Industrial Average index and it is considered a barometer for the American economy. The S&P 500 index is included in the Index of Leading Indicators. There are the number of trading vehicle that are designed to follow the S&P 500 index. Hundreds of billions of US dollars have been invested in this index. The SPY (Exchange Traded Fund) is one of the most actively trading stock over the world. The Rydex,[More...]

Friday’s Market Recap (2/6/2009)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:31:00 GMT

A second consecutive upswing in the market today occurred as investors awaited a Senate vote on its version of an economic stimulus plan that would include a mix of spending and tax cuts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average swung by 2.70% to a close of 8,280.59 while the Nasdaq and S&P moved 2.94% and 2.69% respectively to levels of 1,591.71 and 868.60. To the contrary, crude oil lost -$1.17 to settle at $40.00 while copper increased $0.0120 to a close of $1.62. During the trading day, investors were able to look past the newly reported unemployment rate, which came in at 7.6% compared to estimates of 7.5%. The Labor Department reported that United States employers cut 598,00 jobs during the month of January, which is the most since 1974. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (AEO:[More...]

Starts & Permits At Record Lows

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:08:00 GMT

Discussed in this post are D.R. Horton (DHI), Pulte (PHM), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Masco (MAS) and Whirlpool (WHR). In December, both Housing Starts and Building Permits fell to their lowest level on record, and those records go back to 1959. Furthermore, the figures are not adjusted for population growth, and there are a lot more people in the country than there were back when Ike was president, or even in the last major housing downturn in the early 1990's, or in the previous worst housing decline in the early 1980's.[More...]

More Bad Economic News

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:40:00 GMT

Highlighted stocks include The Boeing Company (BA), General Motors Corporation (GM), TRW Automotive Holdings Corporation (TRW), Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) and Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) Industrial production dropped 2.0% in December, following a 1.3% drop in November. (The November figure was revised sharply lower from an original indication of a 0.6%[More...]

Strong Gains From Hard Assets

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:12:00 GMT

"Market Vectors RVE Hard Assets (ASE: HAP) is designed for one-stop shopping, with a portfolio spanning more than 320 companies from 40 different countries," notes Paul Tracy. In The ETF Authority, he adds "The fund was launched in June, in the middle of a brutal sell-off in commodities. However, this pullback has created an attractive entry point, as I believe these sectors are still in the early stages of a[More...]

USG Earnings And Conference Call Notes - Nov 2 2008 4:26PM

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:20:00 GMT

When I was creating my fall outlook in September during the calm before the storm (oh, the days of the S&P 500 above 1,200), one of the more alarming quotes I included was the following from Alan Mullaly, CEO of Ford (F): “Not only is the U.S. in a recession, but the rest of the world is slowing down… I’ve never seen anything quite like it… We think we’re going to be relatively flat through 2009 and we don’t see[More...]

Investors carry stocks higher

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:46:00 GMT

The stock market ended a three-day losing streak Monday, closing broadly higher as a weaker dollar and upbeat home sales numbers encouraged investors to take on more risk.
Major stock indexes soared more than 1 percent, including the Dow Jones industrials, which rose 133 points to a 13-month high.
The National Association of Realtors report that October home sales rose more than 10 percent revived investors' optimism after disappointing data on the housing industry last week raised concerns about the strength of the economic recovery.

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This Timber Company Is Bucking The Industry’s Falling Trend

Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) Cuts Dividend 80 Percent, Who’s Next?

Permits & Starts Fall Again

Daily Credit Market Summary: April 28 - Inside Day

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Friday’s Market Recap (2/6/2009)

Starts & Permits At Record Lows

More Bad Economic News

Strong Gains From Hard Assets

USG Earnings And Conference Call Notes - Nov 2 2008 4:26PM

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Form 4 WEYERHAEUSER CO For: Nov 24 Filed by: Hooper John A (10K)

Form 4/A WILLIAMSON CHARLES R For: Apr 16 (10K)

Form 4 WEYERHAEUSER CO For: May 13 Filed by: MURDY WAYNE W (10K)

Form 4 PIASECKI NICOLE WEYERHAE For: Apr 16 (10K)

Form 4 STEUERT D MICHAEL For: Apr 16 (10K)

Form 4 WILLIAMSON CHARLES R For: Apr 16 (10K)

Form 4 SINKFIELD RICHARD H For: Apr 16 (10K)

Form 4 SULLIVAN JAMES N For: Apr 16 (10K)

Form 4 WEYERHAEUSER CO For: Apr 16 Filed by: MURDY WAYNE W (10K)

Form 4 Williams Kim For: Apr 16 (10K)