Generally positive economic data, in combination with a blowout quarter from social networking giant Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), sent most stocks higher Thursday.
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July 26 - News
After the Commerce Department said yesterday that new-home sales soared by 35% last month, everything appeared to be lined up perfectly for homebuilders to have an excellent second...
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July 26 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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July 25 - News
Home prices continue their upward ascent.
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July 23 - News
Only once before in recorded history have mortgage rates been more volatile than they are right now.
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July 22 - News
The U.S housing market is recovering and contributing to the country's economic growth. The U.S.
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July 22 - News
It’s rare when you come across a situation where a company is perfectly positioned to benefit from a turnaround in an industry.
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July 18 - News
Common sense seems to dictate that rising mortgage rates will hurt the housing market by depressing the demand for purchase-money mortgages.
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July 17 - News
But not so fast. From a technical perspective, despite the bounce, the picture for homebuilding stocks -- such as today's trade setup, PulteGroup, Inc.
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July 17 - News
Housing is clearly on the mend. In fact, it is finally starting to realize the kind of bounce one would expect following the worst collapse since the Great Depression.
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July 17 - News
Rising household income due to an improving economic environment and an increasing employment rate once again makes housing affordable for an average American.
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July 16 - News
I’ve written for over a year about the improvement in the housing market. Toll Brothers Inc (NYSE:TOL) and Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) have been two of my best performing...
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July 12 - News
I hate it when I’m looking at an earnings report and I’m left with a big unanswered question.
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July 10 - News
Attempting to figure out homebuilders and the future direction of their stock prices is no easy task. In this article, we’ll focus on industry trends and PulteGroup, Inc.
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July 8 - News
Investors have long cited, at least anecdotally, the existence of a newspaper indicator -- that is to say, when the front page of a mainstream newspaper is dedicated to the market...
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July 5 - News
There’s a looming major policy shift on U.S.
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July 3 - News
It sounds premature to say that the housing market should be booming again already, but it's true.
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July 2 - News
Mortgage rates increased more than 1/2% this week to 4.46%, the largest weekly increase in more than a quarter-century and the highest rate in 2 years.
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July 1 - News
Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) released second-quarter financial results this week.
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June 27 - News
Toll Brothers Inc (NYSE:TOL), the leading luxury home builder in the U.S. with an average home price exceeding half a million dollars, serves a wide variety of home buyers.
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June 27 - News
On Thursday, KB Home (NYSE:KBH) will release its latest quarterly results.
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June 26 - News
If you thought the reaction to yesterday's Fed commentary was overblown, don't read any further.
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June 21 - News
Existing-home sales increased last month to the highest level since November 2009, and if you exclude the momentary boost from the first-time home-buyer tax credit that year, ...
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June 20 - News
Officially, 7.6% of Americans are unemployed.
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June 20 - News
Last Monday's home builder sentiment report surged for the month of June and broke 50, a key milestone that suggest builders view conditions as favorable versus poor.
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June 18 - News
The U.S. housing market hit a critical milestone today for the first time in more than seven years.
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June 18 - News
U.S. home sales are rising -- the month of April saw the second highest level of sales in three and half years.
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June 14 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), KB Home (NYSE:KBH), Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), PulteGroup, Inc.
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June 13 - News
New home constructions in the U.S recently touched 5 year highs, thanks to Fed’s monthly liquidity injections in a low interest rate environment.
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June 12 - News
Steve Mandel's Lone Pine Capital just disclosed that it owns a 5.1% stake in realty group Realogy Holdings Corp (NYSE:RLGY).
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June 10 - Hedge Funds
It hasn't happened nearly as often as optimists would like to see in recent weeks, but improving economic data matched the move higher in the broad-based S&P 500 today, and gave...
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June 7 - News
After recovering from a major slump, the US housing market is now back in full swing, evidenced in part by strong macro numbers.
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June 6 - News
Heidi Moore of the Guardian recently described the recovery of the US economy as "false." Much of her premise is based on the rising prices of housing, especially the more recent...
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June 5 - News
On Wednesday, Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:HOV) will release its latest quarterly results.
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June 5 - News
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) was in 29 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the first quarter of 2013.
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May 28 - News
If you'd ask most investors, hedge funds are viewed as unimportant, outdated investment tools of the past.
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May 23 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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May 22 - News
No sector was hurt as much as housing during the Great Recession of the last decade. Most analysts said that housing would take a decade or more to recover.
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May 21 - News
The home builders have been on a tear since last month, and for good reason.
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May 16 - News
The recovery in the housing market is continuing its slow and steady recovery.
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April 29 - News
The housing sector's slow recovery appears to be gaining ground, and homebuilders like PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) The Ryland Group, Inc.
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April 29 - News
One of the hottest sectors this past week was housing. Things certainly didn't start out that way.
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April 28 - News
Home builders are excited about the surge in demand for homes.
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April 23 - News
Although the pace of the housing market recovery is gaining momentum, it is important to keep in mind that we are still in the early stages of the recovery.
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April 22 - News
The housing market has been steadily improving, lifting the stocks of homebuilders like Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE:BZH), Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
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April 19 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM), D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI), NVR, Inc. (NYSE:NVR), Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), Beazer Homes USA, Inc.
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April 18 - News
According to data just released by the Department of Commerce, construction of new homes is now at its highest rate in almost five years.
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April 17 - News
I've been pounding the table to buy Toll Brothers Inc (NYSE:TOL) for a while now.
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April 17 - News
For years, the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping interest rates near 0% has crushed retirees trying to draw income from their life savings.
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April 7 - News
Housing is coming back in a big way! Residential builders have been off the radar for most people as potential investments for the last five years.
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March 28 - News