Toll Brothers profit falls on housing slump
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Luxury home builder Toll Brothers  said quarterly profit fell 79 percent, hurt by the U.S. housing slump, but its shares rose along with those of other builders on Thursday after government data showed a better-than-expected rise in new home sales.
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Bradford & Bingley reports a sharp fall in profits after cutting the value of some housing market linked assets.
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Retailer Home Depot Inc.  said on  Wednesday it expected per-share profit to decline 4 percent to  9 percent this year as the weak U.S. housing market pressures  sales and it boosts investment in stores.
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Home Depot Inc.  said on Wednesday it expects per-share profit to fall this year as the U.S. housing slump hurts sales and it increases spending to improve older stores in a bid to gain market share.
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Hurt by rising losses from home equity loans, Wells Fargo & Co. said fourth-quarter profit fell, the first decline in more than six years.
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US mortgage lender Freddie Mac suffers a steep fall in second quarter profits, as record defaults on home loans take their toll.
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Toll Brothers , the leading  U.S. luxury home builder, reported fiscal quarterly profit rose  3 percent on higher home prices, but the company lowered its  earnings forecast for the year in another signal of a slowing  U.S. home market.
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The investment firm posts a strong profit report, but shares slid.
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Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE:TOL), a developer of luxury homes, reported record fourth-quarter and fiscal-year-end results for earnings, revenue, contracts and backlog.
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The largest U.S. mortgage lender said quarterly profit slid 33 percent and slashed its full-year earnings outlook, citing rising defaults as the housing market slumps.
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Toll Brothers Inc., a US builder of luxury homes, said Wednesday fiscal third-quarter profit rose 56 percent, easily beating analysts&#39; forecasts, helped by record home-building revenue.
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Home Depot Inc.  posted a 28 percent drop in fourth quarter profit on Tuesday as the weak U.S. housing market depressed sales at its retail stores.
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Home Depot Inc. , the world's  largest home improvement retailer, reported lower  fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday as the weak U.S. housing  market hurt sales at its retail stores, which declined 2  percent.
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Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNI.N,  the No. 2 U.S. rail group, on Tuesday reported a sharp drop in  net profit after taking a charge related to a change in the way  it estimates asbestos and environmental liabilities, but posted  record quarterly revenue.
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Profit at PG&amp;E Corp. fell 55.3 percent in the most recent quarter, a drop the company blamed Tuesday on a lingering effect of California&#39;s energy crisis.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK  - Luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc.  reported a 44 percent drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday but signaled that the worst may be over for the sagging U.S. housing market.
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Stocks fell on Tuesday as the housing slump took a toll on companies' earnings outlooks, while trouble in the subprime mortgage market hurt financial companies' shares.