The housing market recovery has been one of the U.S. economy’s brighter stories this year. Now, Fitch Ratings says that the recovery is even better than we thought. In its latest research…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) named value stock of the day at Zacks.…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following weak economic data from Germany (more coverage here). The weekend meetings between Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande highlighted…
Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) this morning reported fiscal third-quarter 2012 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.40 on revenue of $1.1 billion. In the same period a year ago, the homebuilder reported EPS…
Paul Ausick The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning, encouraged by a report from Europe that Spain was close to unveiling a rescue plan for the country’s banks that it would…
Share prices for homebuilders’ stocks began rising at the beginning of the year and all but two of the homebuilders we looked at in our value search have doubled share prices in…
Positive signals continue to issue forth for US home builders. The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo housing market index rose 2 points in August, to 37, the highest index reading since…
Signs of a recovery in the US housing market are everywhere. The National Association of Homebuilders/Wells Fargo housing market index is just the latest signal. The index rose 6 points in July,…
The signals are multiplying that a recovery in home construction is taking place. Earlier this week the S&P Case-Shiller housing price index showed a gain for the first time in seven months.…
The three major US stock indexes opened modestly higher this morning as investors appear to have high hopes that tomorrow’s summit meeting of European Union leaders will lead to a resolution of…
Homebuilder Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) reported second quarter earnings today that handily beat both EPS and revenue estimates. Excluding a one-time tax gain, the company posted EPS of $0.21 compared with a…
The three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher this morning as markets didn’t get any more bad news from Europe and got some good news on housing prices from the S&P…
A Cyprus bailout could cost 10 billion euros. (Reuters) Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) bids $2.3 billion for Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT). (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to buy Yammer for $1.2 billion. (Reuters) Facebook…
Investors have been chasing up the housing stocks higher and higher over the last year. The economy is only just now seeing a better housing market and foreclosures and the shadow inventory…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning as investors wait for weekend data on Chinese trade and industrial production. The drop in US unemployment benefits claims didn’t spur much…
