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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 31, 2010 MARKET RECAP Is news really news if it had already been anticipated? We're referring to April's housing numbers, which everyone anticipated and which surprised few. Existing home sales rose 7.6 percent compared to March's numbers...
05/30/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 24, 2010 MARKET RECAP A popular investing aphorism states that markets must climb a wall of worry in order to advance. If anyone has had more worries than most in recent years, it's the homebuilders. Over the past two months though, they see...
05/23/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 17, 2010 MARKET RECAP The pig is progressing through the python – the pig being the shadow inventory of foreclosures, the python being the market. According to Barclays Capital, there are currently 2.4 million loans in 90-plus day delinqu...
05/16/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 10, 2010 MARKET RECAP In news that surprised no one, the pending home sales index surged to 102.9 in March. We all expected the months heading into April would produce more home sales, and that's the way it's playing out. What's more, it'...
05/08/2010
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Keeping you updated on the market! For the week of May 3, 2010 MARKET RECAP The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index is promoted as the leading indicator of the national trend in home prices, but we wonder if its worth is overstated – given that it tends to obfuscate as much as enlighten. For ex...
05/03/2010