Housing Market Has Bottomed, How To Play The Recovery (XHB, SLV, TOL, LEN)
New home sales are rising the most since April of 2010 and beating expectations. Bill Procida of Procida Funding & Advisors explains Read more…
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Case-Shiller Index: Is This The Housing Market Bottom? (ITB, DB, HD, LOW, USG, MAS, OC, LEN, MHK)
Don Miller: Analysts, government officials and certainly homebuyers are spending hours trying to figure out if we have reached the housing market bottom. Tuesday’s data would seem to suggest the bottom is a bit bumpier than most people think. Read more…
The U.S. Prison-Cell Economy (IYR, XHB, XLF, ITB, LEN, KBH, DHI, TOL)
Jeff Nielson: Every month, the U.S. propaganda machine plays the same game in the housing sector. It announces “new home starts”. Then a few days later it announces “new home sales”. But it never, ever, ever talks about the two numbers in the same news item. Read more…
New Wave Of Foreclosures Will Sink The Housing Market Rebound (IYR, XHB, ITB, LEN, KBH, DHI, TOL)
David Zeiler: The long-anticipated housing market rebound will hit a speed bump this year as the number of foreclosures rises again. With January’s mammoth $26 billion settlement between five major banks and a group of state attorneys general, foreclosures that had been held up for a year or more are Read more…
Why It’s Finally Time To Invest In The Real Estate Market (XHB, ITB, IYR, LEN, KBH, DHI, TOL, PHM)
Ian Wyatt: Nearly four years removed from the subprime mortgage lending crisis pushed the U.S. into a deep recession, it’s finally time to invest in housing. Read more…
Real Estate: Has The Housing Market Finally Bottomed? (IYR, XHB, DHI, TOL, KBH, LEN)
Martin Hutchinson: It was the most atrocious bubble in U.S. history pushing tens of millions of Americans into financial misery. Even today, the last of the lawsuits have yet to be filed. But five years later it’s finally coming back. Read more…Why It May Be Time For Investors To Pile Into The Real Estate Sector? (ITB, XHB, PCL, HD, OC, PHM, DHI, LEN)
Steve Mauzy: As someone who considers himself a contrarian, my interest is always piqued by alarmist headlines. Which is why I’m interested in housing. For the past two years, the sector has been a wellspring of head-for-the-hills Cassandraisms. Read more…
Real Estate: Looking In On The Housing Disaster (XHB, ITB, LEN, KBH, DHI, TOL, PHM)
Jeff Harding: It would not surprise anyone that home prices are still falling, perhaps less, but they are still declining. The Case Shiller report for November 30, 2011 showed: Read more…
Some ETFs Are Hot, Some Are Not (EWI, SLV, IYH, ITB, TOL, LEN, DHI, IAT, USB, PNC, STI)
John Nyaradi: Some ETFs are hot and some are not as we enter 2012. A famous stock market axiom says that “a rising tides lifts all boats,” however, in markets like today’s bifurcated environment, vast Read more…
The Housing Market’s Un-Recovery (ITB, XHB, SRS, RYL, PHM, LEN, TOL)
Sara Nunnally: The nation’s real estate market is anything but stable. Just when we think prices are starting to climb, Washington throws a curveball. When I’m not traveling, I spend most of my time writing and researching the markets from my farm here in Wisconsin, but yesterday, I drove into the Read more…
Bill Gross & Jim Rogers: Bleak Outlook For Real Estate; Interest Rates To Stay Low (XBH, GFA, XIN, LEN, YAO)
Jonathan Yates: Bill Gross recently confirmed a bleak outlook for real estate as he predicted that low interest rates would be maintained by the Federal Reserve for “three, four or five years.” He also stated that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England will continue to keep interest rates low, Read more…
Tuesday’s ETF Chart To Watch: SPDR Homebuilders ETF (XHB, RYL, PHM, LEN, TOL)
Stoyan Bojinov: Selling pressures tipped the market south right from the opening bell as ongoing Euro zone woes made way for the bears on Wall Street. Investors’ sentiment declined as worries overseas intensified after ECB President Mario Draghi put a damper on hopes that the central bank would Read more…
Three ETFs To Watch This Week: (XHB, UUP, IGV, IGN, LEN, BBBY)
Eric Dutram: This past week was a generally positive one for markets as investors shook off European worries for the time being, buying up equities across the board. Although stocks trended lower in Monday trading, they soon took off in the middle part of the week as a coordinated effort by the leaders of the euro Read more…
Thursday June 23, 2011 ETF To Watch: iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund (ITB, LEN)
Close to three years after the bottom fell out of the housing market, home prices still remain weak and are even declining once again in many major markets. Recently, the 10 city Case-Shiller Index showed that home prices have fallen back into dreaded double dip territory, suggesting that further Read more…
Thursday June 16, 2011 ETF To Watch: Homebuilders SPDR ETF (XHB, PIR, PHM, DHI, BBBY)
Thanks to sluggish growth and ongoing fears over the long-term health of the American economy, the housing market across the country remains incredibly weak. With unemployment over 9.0% and many homeowners being underwater in their mortgages, sales and demand for new housing Read more…
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