Home Builder Says Quarterly Revenue Will Be Down 19%
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Toll Brothers also warned that write-downs were expected to balloon to $60 million to $160 million or more for the quarter.
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JJB Sports has warned that full-year profits will come in around 20 percent lower as a dismal summer and tough competition hits sales of T-shirts and shorts, sending its shares 19 percent lower.
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Weak home and hardware sales drive lower fourth-quarter profits.
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Home furnishings retailer lowers expectations.
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The number of new mortgages being given to house movers falls by 20% in the past year, Bank of England figures show.
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Retailer 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 on its stores.
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The serious slump in the housing market and home building may be near a bottom, according to a leading U.S. home builder.
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KB Home , a leading U.S. home builder, posted a quarterly net loss on Tuesday as it took $343.3 million of pretax charges for abandoning land option contracts and writing down the value of inventory, a consequence of the U.S. housing market downturn.
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With housing woes weighing it down, the furniture maker swings to a loss for the quarter.
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By Kathleen M. Howley BLOOMBERG NEWS  Los Angeles-based KB Home, the sixth-largest U.S. homebuilder, reduced its earnings forecast Wednesday, saying a plunge in new orders will cause profit to fall in fiscal 2006 as higher mortgage rates chill demand.
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Toll Brothers Inc.  on Thursday said the weak U.S. housing market drove down its quarterly profit 67 percent after write-downs for lower land values, and the luxury home builder lowered its forecast.
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Business & money: Sixth successive month of price falls, and mortgage lending at two-year low despite rate cuts
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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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The Home Depot Inc., the world's largest home improvement store chain, warned Tuesday that its earnings will decline this year more than previously expected because of weak conditions in the housing market and the sale of its wholesale distribution business.
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The pace of existing home sales in the United States fell by 2.2 percent in December to a slower-than-expected 4.89 million-unit annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Thursday.
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The homebuilder said its fourth-quarter loss ballooned to $772.7 million as home sales slowed, prompting it to book charges to write down unsold inventory and for a tax allowance.
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U.S. construction spending fell a sharper-than-expected 1 percent last month as home building posted a seventh straight drop, according to a government report on Friday that underscored the weakness in the U.S. housing market.