Wall St.'s Nest Egg - the Housing Sector
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If there were any doubts that we're  still living in the era of the stay-at-home economy, the rows  of empty seats at the Athens Olympics should help erase them.
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IF stock prices are supposed to reflect the underlying health of the economy, itâs easy to see why the market is off to such a tough start this year. Wall Street is worried that the economy is headed for its first recession in six years, so itâs only natural that investors are a little spooked.
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Business & money: Strong earnings from corporate America sent Wall Street's yardstick of blue-chip stocks through the 14,000 level for the first time yesterday.
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U.S. stocks gained on Tuesday as a report showing a surprisingly robust services sector boosted hopes that profit growth would weather fallout from a slowing housing market.
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After a shallow, one-week dip, mortgage rates have risen to just about where they were two weeks ago. Rates are still low. The question is whether they are low enough to keep the housing market hot.
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.
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Sales of new U.S. homes rose 16.2 percent in April, the sharpest climb in fourteen years, while prices fell a record 11 percent, according to a government report on Thursday that showed home builders taking extraordinary steps to move houses.
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If the US housing bust triggers a recession, you can still profit in the financial markets.
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Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.
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Wall Street is still on course to end  2006 in the plus column, but it's too early to pop the  champagne corks. Investors will comb through next week's jobs  report for November and other data to see if the U.S. economy  and corporate profits will be able to withstand the fallout  from a slowdown in housing and the dollar's slide.
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The homebuilder beats expectations; shares bounce back.
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street powered higher Thursday after the government's new homes data in April soared to its biggest increase in 14 years, allaying investor concerns that the housing market will tip the economy into a recession.
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A discouraging report on home sales wiped out early gains on Wall Street.
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Sales of new U.S. homes rose 16.2 percent in April, the sharpest climb in 14 years as builders slashed prices a record 11 percent, a government report showed on Thursday, signaling stabilization in the housing sector.
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Even when experts were declaring the economy healthy, many Americans voiced a vague, but persistent dissatisfaction. True, jobs were relatively plentiful over the last few years. It was easy to borrow and very cheap. The sharp rise in the value of homes and plentiful credit cards encouraged a nation of consumers to get out and buy. But to many people, something didn't feel right, even if they couldn't quite explain why.
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WASHINGTON - Could the housing market's woes spread to bonds held in mutual funds by millions of ordinary investors?
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Investor's Business Daily - Q2 prices rose 3.2% vs. a year ago, the slowest rise in a decade, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said. Price gains could turn into declines, as they have in other measures, and are taking a toll on broader economic growth. The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index on Tue. showed Q2 home prices down 3.2% vs. a year earlier. OFHEO prices don&#39;t include homes with jumbo or subprime loans, two of the more vulnerable segments of the mortgage market. Weakness is expected to continue into &#39;08.