Cramer discussed the CEO having resigned from KB Homes (KBH). cramer has interviewed him before, but he says you have to go buy shares of KBH. Cramer said the options scandal pressures a stock down,...
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...
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: BZH), Meritage...
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 US...
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 buyers...
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,...
Lehman Brothers has initiated coverage of some key homebuilders this morning: DR Horton (NYSE: DHI) started as Overweight. Hovnanian (NYSE: HOV) started as Underweight. KB Home (NYSE: KBH) started as...
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 period a year ago. That’s...
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...
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...
These are this morning’s top day trader and active alert stocks moving on volume.  We have provided links through to each stock with more detailed analysis and data at VSInvestor.com: Black...
Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: HOV) may have been the hardest hit of all the publicly traded homebuilders since the housing market collapse began in 2007. The share price dipped below a dollar...
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Thursday morning: Amdocs (DOX) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Chevron (CVX)...
The housing market is supposed to be doing better and the lack of a new recession is supposed to have helped to put in a floor under what had been consistently falling house prices.  Even the...