Today’s disappointing report on unemployment from the US Labor Department sent stock futures down sharply this morning. Along with that slide may have gone some glimmers of hope for US homebuilders. A…
There is a strong revival of retail stocks occurring after two years of the damage done by a free fall in consumer expenditures. Retail companies that are part of the S&P 500…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre Just last week the Mortgage Bankers Association, MBA, released its forecast for mortgage rates and numbers for the rest of 2010 and 2011. The association expect 30-year mortgages to fall through the…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Removed from TD’s Action Buy List but target raised to…
Mergers are headed the way of smaller homebuilders. That is the take from Citi. The firm is looking at several companies in the sector and it featured Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:…
Defying all the mediocre views of the US housing market, PulteGroup Inc. (NYSE:PHM) reported EPS of $0.20 on revenue of $1.3 billion. Analysts had been expecting an EPS loss of -$0.01 on…
Perhaps one way to get a read on where housing construction in the US is headed is to look at the companies who supply the lumber that goes into new construction. Louisiana-Pacific…
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has initiated coverage of the homebuilder sector this morning. Technically this is a resumption of coverage. While some are positive calls, there are still some cautious undertones here…
These are today’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have links over to VSInvestor (except on one) with more details and analysis on each story: Comsys IT Partners, Inc.…
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Express (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Capital One (NYSE: COF) Started as…
The Commerce Department has just shown a report that new home sales for the month of September turned south. This may increase the call for that first time home buyer $8,000.00 tax…
We won’t bother telling you about the homebuilder merger this morning, because we already covered it once. But in a down and out sector, you will see that traders are looking to…
These are some of the top analyst downgrades or cautious analyst calls we have seen from Wall Street this Tuesday morning: BP (BP) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. Credit Suisse (CS)…
Champion Enterprises (CHB) Moody’s downgrade. Drops to $1.80 from 52-week high of $13.30. Belden (BDC) Net income falls and forecast drops. Falls to $13.48 from 52-week high of $59.48. Las Vegas Sands…
