This Time, Housing Is Taking Department Stores Down With It
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Since April, when investors voiced optimism that the housing slide had been contained, shares of the countryâs biggest department store chains have fallen by about 30 percent.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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The housing market plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years.
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The latest data indicates that slowing home sales and the rising number of properties for sale is forcing more sellers to reduce prices in many locations across the country.
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Earnings season had unleashed yet another group of housing write-downs and losses.
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The housing market took a sharp turn  for the worse in September as prices tumbled and sales of  previously owned homes fell to a record low, battered by rising  foreclosures and tighter lending standards.
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The retailer's same-store sales plummet.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc , pressured by continued weakness in the U.S. housing market, is expected to ramp down new-store openings this year and boost spending to maintain existing outlets, an analyst said on Friday.
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New strategies are alienating high-volume sellers, and they're taking their business elsewhere.
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Sales fall and losses double at home decor retailer.
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NEW YORK -- Sears Holdings Corp., the biggest US department store company, and Home Depot Inc. said profit will fall as the decline in housing prices hurts demand for goods to build and furnish homes.
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The housing market took a sharp turn for the worse in September as prices tumbled and sales of previously owned homes fell to a record low, battered by rising foreclosures and tighter lending standards.
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Americans are taking substantially less equity out of the value of their homes than a year ago, a sign consumer spending may be set to recede, data compiled by a Federal Reserve economist suggest.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc , pressured by continued weakness in the U.S. housing  market, is expected to ramp down new-store openings this year  and boost spending to maintain existing outlets, an analyst  said on Friday.
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The retailer lowers its outlook after same-store sales fall.
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The area's mix of retail tenants is changing from mom-and-pop shops to a blend of well-known chains.
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The number of single-family homes homes being contructed in the US hits its lowest level since April 1991.