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Will Rising Interest Rates Choke Off Homebuilding Growth?

Posted: June 13, 2013 at 8:05 am

In the past 60 days, mortgage rates have moved up 60 basis points from 3.35% to near 4%. While that may seem like a large move, it is important to ...
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Why Home Builders Can Easily Survive Higher Interest Rates

Posted: May 30, 2013 at 12:15 pm

Interest rates are rising and the 30-year mortgage just hit a 12-month high. Rising rates will eat up your spending power and erode the value of your fixed income investments. ...
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Bull and Bear

Top Analyst Downgrades and Stocks to Sell: Cree, Melco, Monster, VIVUS and More

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 8:40 am

Investors frequently get to see the analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street firms. What investors often do not get to see is when analyst downgrade stocks to sell ...
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Stern Agee Remains Very Bullish as Housing Data Keeps Rising

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 10:45 am

The housing data keeps rolling in stronger and stronger for the U.S. economy. What is at issue is whether investors should keep paying up and up for housing stocks. Rather ...
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House for Sale

Homebuilder Stocks Sagging

Posted: February 19, 2013 at 2:30 pm

Following about 10 months of mostly steady improvement in share prices, growth has flattened out a little in the homebuilders’ stocks. Upbeat reports on the state of the housing market, ...
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Deutsche Bank Raises Price Targets on Homebuilders — Time to Tap the Brakes? (DB, BCS, DHI, MDC, MTH, RYL, PHM, XHB)

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 9:25 am

We have written at great length about the resurgence of homebuilding in the United States. Like any other sector, if you go long enough without production, demand catches up with ...
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Bull and Bear

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BIDU, BBVA, BBBY, CIT, CLWR, DHI, HMY, HGG, KBH, M, MRVL, PHM, RYL, SD, SWC, TGT, TOL, UNH, WSM, ZNGA)

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 8:25 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) cut to Market Perform at Raymond James and ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 30, 2013: Markets Slide on GDP, Fed Stimulus (WBSN, JBLU, KBH, YUM, CSCO, AMZN, BRCM, RYL, RHI, BA, ADT, LLL, PSX, NOC, SO, CTXS, COP, EA, FB, JDSU, LVS, AET, MO, AN, CL, DNKN, MA, PHM, TWC, UPS, RIMM, CHK, VTUS)

Posted: January 30, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning following a depressing report on U.S. GDP growth, which turned out to be negative (more coverage here). Even a good jobs report from ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 29, 2013: Markets Shake Off Slow Start, Post Gains (STX, TSN, SBUX, ANF, CAT, YHOO, STX, STLD, BSX, DHI, F, BTU, PFE, VLO, AMZN, BRCM, RYL, RHI, ADT, LLL, PSX, NOC, SO, KERX, VMW, OCZ)

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning following not-much in the way of new data and a wait-and-see attitude until tomorrow’s meeting announcement from the FOMC, which began a ...
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Home security

Compass Point Boldly Upgrades Homebuilders to Buy (KBH, LEN, SPF, RYL, BZH, PHM)

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 9:45 am

We have written at great length about the resurgence of homebuilding in the United States. Like any other sector, if you go long enough without production, demand catches up with ...
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Home security

Going to the FHA for the Unconventional Mortgage

Posted: December 4, 2012 at 8:05 am

Like all bubbles that have burst, the housing crisis left an extremely scarred landscape. What used to be a fairly routine mortgage process for a qualified home buyer has turned ...
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Homebuilders Feel Pain of Weak Sales Data (DHI, KBH, LEN, PHM, RYL, TOL)

Posted: November 28, 2012 at 11:15 am

A disappointing report for new home sales in October sure took a bite out of the homebuilder stocks today. The Census Bureau showed a 0.3% decline to 368,000 on an annualized ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADT, AVAV, AL, ATK, CSCO, LLY, FSLR, GRPN, MMM, MRO, PANW, PCLN, QCOM, RYL, SPRD, SBUX, TUMI, DIS, ZLC)

Posted: November 9, 2012 at 8:31 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday. ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) added to the U.S. Focus List at ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 25, 2012: Markets Off to Good Start, But Lose Steam (CBST, ISIL, FB, BA, BP, ANGI, CLF, CROX, FFV, RRC, RYL, AET, ALK, AN, BG, CL, DNKN, NOV, POT, UAL, AAPL, AMZN, BYI, CLWR, CSTR, DV, HLS, ACI, CMCSA, KKR, MRK, OSK, WY, ZNGA, PSSI, MCK, NYT)

Posted: October 25, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following the report on new jobless claims, which rose by 369,000, less than the expected 375,000 (our coverage here). In ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 24, 2012: Markets Can’t Hold Morning Gains (BUD, NOK, CHKP, AAPL, DLTR, AMGN, BRCM, FB, JNPR, NFLX, T, BA, GLW, LLY, EMC, GD, LCC, ANGI, CLF, CROX, FFIV, RRC, RYL, AET, ZNGA, ALK, AN, BG, CL, DNKN, NOV, POT, UAL, RF, TPX, ZZ, ATI)

Posted: October 24, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following a better-than-expected PMI reading from China (more coverage here) that was mostly untempered by lower-than-expected PMI readings from Europe ...
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