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Nike, FedEx, Micron, General Mills, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
A bevy of economic data and several notable companies reporting will keep investors busy this week, before things slow down for the holidays. On Tuesday, Nike FedEx and General Mills release quarterl...
Is the Housing Market Headed for a Big Crash? What’s Ahead for Real Estate.
Todd Clark and his wife, Jocelynn Wilde-Clark, have lived through the ups and downs of the housing market in the time of pandemic. In the summer of 2021, as Covid produced frenzied home buying, the co...
What’s next for lumber as it looks to be 2022’s worst-performing commodity
Lumber has the dubious honor of being among the biggest commodity price decliners this year, and the outlook for the market doesn’t look to improve anytime soon. Random-length lumber for January deliv...
New-Home Sales Surge. It’s Still a Mixed Picture for Housing.
Text size Sales of new homes rose in October. Here: completed and under construction new homes in Trappe, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose in October, pai...
Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, AT&T, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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China Evergrande’s Debt-Crisis Fallout: Losses, Layoffs and More Defaults
Listen to article (2 minutes) When China Evergrande Group began struggling under a mountain of debt last year, it quietly set off a chain reaction across the country. Chinese authorities prevented a ...
Opinion: Florida’s insurance rates have almost doubled over five years, yet insurance companies are still losing money — and the reason is more insidious than hurricanes
Hurricane risk might seem like the obvious problem, but there is a more insidious driver in this financial train wreck. Finance professor Shahid Hamid, who directs the Laboratory for Insurance at Flor...
Robert Toll, Who Headed Luxury Homebuilder Toll Brothers, Dies at 81
Robert Toll, who built Toll Brothers into the country’s largest luxury homebuilder and brought a founder’s passion to the business, died Friday at age 81 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease The e...
PVC Piping Prices Are Dropping as Housing Market Weakens
Text size PVC piping is made from ethylene, a petroleum product that Occidental Petroleum produces. Dreamstime.com As rising interest rates interest rates pummel the housing market, the ripple effects...
These Are the 7 Worst Housing Markets, According to Lennar
Higher mortgage rates have cut into home sales at a national level—but, as the saying goes, all real estate is local. Lennar , the nation’s second-largest builder by market capitalization, on Thursda...
Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Macy’s, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Numerous technology and retail companies will report their latest quarterly results this week. Federal Reserve watchers will be tuning into the central bank’s annual confab in Jackson Hole, ...
Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Macy’s, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Numerous technology and retail companies will report their latest quarterly results this week. Federal Reserve watchers will be tuning into the central bank’s annual confab in Jackson Hole, ...
Walmart, Target, Cisco, Deere, Housing Data, and Other Things for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Earnings season continues next week in what will be an action-packed stretch for retail stocks. Walmart and Home Depot report results on Tuesday, followed by Bath & Body Works , Lowe’s, ...
‘Continuing home price deceleration.’ Here’s what 5 economists and real estate pros predict will happen to the housing market this year
What will happen in the housing market this year? Getty Images When will home price growth really slow down? Will mortgage rates continue their upward climb? What do I need to know if I’m trying to bu...
China Home Sales Plunge in July, as Mortgage Revolt Deters Buyers
A nascent two-month recovery in China’s home sales ended in July, as a widespread mortgage revolt over concerns that ailing property developers wouldn’t be able to deliver still-unfinished apartments ...
People Are Backing Out of Home Purchases
Text size D.R. Horton said its cancellation rate was 24% in the latest quarter. Above, contractors at a D.R. Horton development in Florence, Ariz. Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg In its most recent qua...
Lumber Prices Tumble After Huge Gains in 2021
Shopping for lumber at a Home Depot in Alhambra, Calif., earlier this year Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Text size The lumber market has taken some big hits from rising inflation and a slowdown i...
Home builders cut prices and slow construction as buyers pull back, survey shows
Home builders are feeling jittery. That’s according to a June survey of home builder sentiment by John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Demand for new homes is cooling as buyers cancel orders, and builde...
20 income-building stocks that numbers say may become elite Dividend Aristocrats
Back in January, we took a deep look into three groups of Dividend Aristocrat stocks to show which ones had increased their payouts most significantly over the past five years. Now it is time for a fo...