Now that mortgage rates have come off their historic lows, commentators are beginning to proclaim that the end of the housing recovery is nigh.
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September 3 - News
To many investors, hedge funds are viewed as delayed, outdated investment tools of a forgotten age.
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August 29 - News
The Mortgage Bankers Association reported today that applications for home loans fell for the third time in a row last week.
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August 28 - News
Data released this morning showed that property values in 20 major metropolitan areas rose by 12.1% in the month of June over the same month last year.
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August 27 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are tons of gauges investors can use to watch publicly traded companies.
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August 26 - News
If you were to ask many of your peers, hedge funds are viewed as useless, outdated financial vehicles of a period lost to current times.
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August 25 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are dozens of metrics shareholders can use to track publicly traded companies.
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August 23 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are tons of gauges investors can use to track stocks. Two of the most underrated are hedge fund and insider trading activity.
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August 23 - News
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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August 23 - News
The Mortgage Bankers Association reported today that applications for home loans fell for the second time in a row last week by more than 4%.
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August 21 - News
Over the summer, rising interest rates have been one of the most influential trends in the markets.
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August 21 - News
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors, including Ken Heebner’s Capital Growth Management.
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August 20 - Hedge Funds
The health of the housing sector is undoubtedly one of the most important drivers of the economy.
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August 16 - News
In August, billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s family office (Druckenmiller is the former head of Duquesne Capital) filed its 13F for the second quarter of 2013 with the SEC...
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August 15 - Hedge Funds
But it appears that the U.S. auto industry could now be getting a bit toppy. Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) and General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) are the leaders in the U.S.
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August 8 - News
Are higher mortgage rates starting to have a detrimental impact on the housing market? According to data released this morning by the National Association of Realtors, the answer...
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August 8 - News
The recent rise in interest rates is continuing to work its way through the mortgage market.
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August 8 - News
Since early May, the major home builders have been in free fall. The reason for the fall? Rising interest rates are supposedly threatening the housing rebound.
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August 5 - News
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) is putting its money where its mouth is.
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August 5 - News
The upward ascent of home prices continues.
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July 30 - 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
Earnings yield is a valuation method used to check if a company is over or undervalued compared to its peers and the wider market.
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July 19 - 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
The National Association of Realtors recently warned that home prices are moving to far too fast. The only thing that can help solve the problem is more construction.
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July 16 - 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
For the sixth straight month, more than 70% of all American metropolitan areas are showing growth in their housing markets.
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July 15 - News
The housing market suffered during the recession, with the median size of a new single-family home dropping by an estimated 6%, according to NPR.
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July 15 - News
After the financial meltdown of 2008, market confidence in the real estate sector became close to non-existent.
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July 10 - News
It is true that mortgage rates are on the rise, and the first industry that could come in the line of fire is home building.
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July 10 - News
Home builders stumbled in June on fear rising mortgage rates will derail demand. But, demand may not suffer as much as feared.
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July 8 - News
There’s a looming major policy shift on U.S.
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July 3 - News
There's a growing chorus of evidence that nationwide home prices have turned the corner.
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July 2 - News
If you had any doubts about the housing recovery, then June should have assuaged you.
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July 1 - News
Blue-chip stocks are surging this afternoon following a number of better-than-expected economic reports related to jobs, income, spending, inflation, and home sales.
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June 27 - 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
Despite rising interest rates and some troubling data regarding the housing recovery, homebuilder Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) beat analyst estimates and showed a cheery outlook...
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June 27 - News
Hot-selling homebuilder stocks such as D.R. Horton, Inc.
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June 26 - 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
Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) is the largest manufacturer of paints in the United States and has over 3,800 stores in North and South America.
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June 20 - News
The increasing use of school loans to pay for college, combined with the rising cost of such an education, is likely to have long-term consequences.
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June 20 - News
Officially, 7.6% of Americans are unemployed.
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June 20 - News
Consumer credit increased in April, partly on auto loan growth. That's being driven by pent up demand and the desire to lock in low rates, just like home sales.
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June 17 - News
Home sales have been improving of late. The momentum of the recovery has increased notably in recent months.
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June 14 - News
The ongoing recovery of the housing market raised the concern that we are heading toward another bubble that could burst in the near future.
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June 14 - News
After the financial crisis hit, few sectors in the market got hit as hard as the homebuilders.
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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
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller founded his Duquesne Capital hedge fund in 1981. It now has some $10 billion in assets under management.
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June 10 - Hedge Funds
