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
Standard Pacific Corp. (NYSE:SPF) has been involved in home building and home financing since 1965.
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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
New home sales were strong in April, according to Bloomberg. What was more interesting, however, was that the median home price went up.
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June 5 - News
In mid May, Capital Growth Management, a fund managed by Ken Heebner, filed its 13F with the SEC.
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May 30 - Hedge Funds
D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI) 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
On Wednesday, Toll Brothers Inc (NYSE:TOL) will release its latest quarterly results.
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May 21 - News
While these are fundamental questions that serious investors should know the answer to, I'd venture a guess that few have more than a vague sense of the market's present valuation...
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May 20 - News
The home builders have been on a tear since last month, and for good reason.
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May 16 - News
The American dream of owning a home looks to be under increasing pressure.
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May 14 - News
NVR, Inc., one of the nation's largest homebuilding and mortgage banking companies, announces the grand opening of its Victoria Falls single-family home model at Woodbine Village...
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May 2 - News
Nationwide housing prices grew 9.3% in the 12 months ended February, according to the S&P Case-Shiller Housing Index.
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May 1 - News
The U.S housing market is still going strong, according to the S&P Case-Shiller Index of property values in 20 major cities in the United States.
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May 1 - News
Blue-chip stocks are holding onto record highs this afternoon after new data showed that home prices are growing at the fastest rate in nearly seven years.
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May 1 - News
The ongoing recovery of the housing market keeps the stocks of leading home-builders such as D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI) and Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) rising.
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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
Looking solely at economic data, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment for April rose to 76.4.
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April 27 - News
Homebuilders are probably breathing a sigh of relief right now, as new housing starts have finally broken to new five-year highs, and many analysts are expressing confidence in...
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April 26 - News
Harvard University's endowment has an impressive track record when it comes to investing.
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April 24 - 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
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
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
2012 was a stable year for the housing market, with respect to both volume and prices.
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March 24 - News
Generally, there are two industries that are blamed for the financial crisis: banks and homebuilders.
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March 13 - News
Since late 2006, home prices in the United States have dropped, on average, a little over 30%, although drops have been much higher in some areas.
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March 8 - News
Is the housing market really rebounding? Many think so, and the numbers seem to be pointing towards a "yes." According to Gus Faucher, a senior economist at PNC Financial Services...
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March 7 - News
Recently, Fool contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz wrote an article about 4 stocks that might reach $1,000 before Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG).
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March 4 - News
It appears some investors are gearing up for a nice rally in the housing market. Earlier this week, a number of major companies with exposure to housing spiked on news that "...
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March 1 - Stock Analysis
I have been following the exciting homebuilding industry closely in recent months.
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February 27 - News
Sizable fortunes were already delivered to those who have wisely invested in stocks of American homebuilders last year, judging by the recent rosy results of three of the largest...
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February 20 - News
It's a rare day when the U.S. budget deficit moves the markets, but a surprise surplus of $2.9 billion in January did just that today. According to the U.S.
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February 12 - News
Several reports came out in recent weeks that suggest the housing market is showing signs of recovery. Moreover, shares of leading U.S homebuilders such as D.R. Horton, Inc.
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February 8 - News
The U.S. housing market today is full of confusing contradictions.
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February 6 - News
Dividend stocks are everywhere, but many just downright stink. In some cases, the business model is in serious jeopardy or the dividend itself isn't sustainable.
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February 2 - News
