Countrywide profit falls
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Tuesday second-quarter profit fell as mortgage banking pre-tax earnings declined by about half.
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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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Countrywide Financial Corp  posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its shares climbed after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it expected to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and has weathered the worst of the nationwide housing downturn.
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Lowe's Cos.  reported lower quarterly profit on Friday as the battered U.S. housing market hurt sales.
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Luxury home builder Toll Brothers  on Thursday reported sharply lower quarterly net income, hurt by a downturn in the U.S. housing market.
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Stocks fell after Countrywide Financial reported an increase in home loan defaults and Micron Technology released a profit warning, shaking technology stocks.
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Countrywide Financial Corp  said on Thursday that mortgage loan funding tumbled 40 percent to $23 billion in November, sending its shares down nearly 4 percent before the market opened.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, hurt by write-downs as the U.S. housing market deteriorated.
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Lennar Corp. LEN.N, the   third-largest U.S. home builder, on Tuesday said quarterly   profit fell 39 percent, citing a steeper than expected decline   in the U.S. housing market.
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The investment bank said third-quarter profit fell less than expected, as strength in stock trading and investment banking offset losses from the mortgage market.
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Countrywide Financial Corp ,  the largest U.S. mortgage lender, posted a $1.2 billion  third-quarter loss on Friday, hurt by write-downs as the U.S.  housing market deteriorated.
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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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Pulte Homes Inc. , the No. 2  U.S. home builder, on Wednesday said its quarterly profit fell  20 percent and new orders dropped 30 percent, underscoring the  slowdown in the U.S. housing market.
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U.S. Treasury prices fell on Tuesday in  profit-taking after a weaker-than-expected consumer confidence  index failed to punch key yields below recent lows.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the No. 1 U.S. mortgage lender, said on Thursday mortgage loan funding tumbled 40 percent to $23 billion in November, sending its shares down 5 percent as late payments continue to escalate.
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Countrywide Financial Corp.'s shares tumbled for the second day Wednesday after the nation's largest mortgage lender said the delinquency and foreclosure rate of home loans in its portfolio surged in December.
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Countrywide Financial Corp   posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its  shares soared after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it  expects to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and  has weathered the worst of the housing downturn.