Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Cut to Market Perform at BMO. Cabela’s, Inc.…
D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE: DHI) rarely makes a splash on the most active option contracts. So when you see a contract volume of 70,186 contracts traded in the April 2012 $14.00 Put…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. American Water Works…
Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) is softening after its net loss rather than a small gain expected. There is more to this than just an earnings story. What is really the driving…
Last month homebuilder KB Home (NYSE: KBH) launched a tender offer to redeem notes due in 2014 and 2015, saying it would accept up to $100 million in requests to buy back…
Paul Ausick US home prices fell -1.4% month-over-month in November and -4.3% year-over-year according to the latest report from research firm CoreLogic. The year-over-year drop in October was -3.7%. The declines come following some…
The monthly S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for the month of October were released this morning, and the results failed to meet already low expectation. The annual decline in home prices in the…
Markets opened lower this morning on mixed reaction to the $641 billion borrowing spree from the European Central Bank. Technology stocks were weighed down by poor earnings report and uninspired guidance from…
Mortgage interest rates remain historically low, but buyers are either unwilling or unable to take advantage of the low rates. After three straight weeks of increases in mortgage applications, borrowers backed off…
The collapse of the US housing market has been among the most stubborn problems facing the US economy for the past four years. Construction jobs have vanished, home values have plummeted, and…
The number of foreclosures filed in the third calendar quarter of 2011 totaled 610,337, an increase of less than 1% from the second quarter and a drop of 34% from the same…
Despite a near-compulsive search for good news from the US housing market, nearly every story contains more than enough dismal news to outweigh whatever good news there is. Generally the news starts…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Amerisafe, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSF) named Bear of the Day at…
This week is starting to look a bit different for housing and homebuilders and it is a serious matter in considering that the news of the world and the less recent housing…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Buy at UBS. Arch Coal Inc.…
