July 12, 2010
The prospect of a company's declaring a special dividend valued at $5.6 billion—and higher regular dividends in the future due to a tax-exempt corporate ...
July 12, 2010
Corporate Office Properties Trust: Keefe, Bruyette & Woods initiated coverage on shares of Corporate Office Properties Trust (OFC), a real estate investment trust ...
July 1, 2010
Businessweek.com compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of July 1. Michael Feroli, JPMorgan Chase Incoming...
April 27, 2010
Looking at the big gains in homebuilders' stock prices thus far in 2010, anyone would think the housing downturn and all its residual effects had completely passed. ...
March 10, 2010
By Bloomberg BusinessWeek Staff Bloomberg BusinessWeek compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of Mar. 10. ...
February 26, 2010
America's housing market implosion was the epicenter of the Great Recession. It's hardly surprising that the federal government directed enormous resources at the ...
February 23, 2010
The rest of the U.S. economy may be bouncing back, but for the battered housing sector, the hopes of economists and real estate experts are still modest. "Recovery is ...
February 15, 2010
Unlike much of the market, most of the homebuilder stocks have continued to rally this year, albeit bumpily, despite renewed concerns about the pace of economic ...
December 17, 2009
By John Gittelsohn and John Detrixhe (Bloomberg)—The outlook for U.S. homebuilders improved to "stable" for the first time in almost four years, Moody's ...
November 24, 2009
BusinessWeek compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of Nov. 24. Paul Ashworth, Capital Economics The ...
November 23, 2009
There are yet more signs that the crippled U.S. housing sector is getting back on its feet. On Nov. 23 news arrived that U.S. existing home sales jumped 10.1% in ...
November 17, 2009
Anyone who's been paying attention to Wall Street investment strategists' forecasts for 2010 knows that a potential avalanche of commercial real estate foreclosures ...
August 23, 2009
If you're selling your home, the good news is that you're likelier to find a buyer now than in the last couple of years. The bad news is you should be prepared to ...
August 6, 2009
This is the first column for BusinessWeek by David Phillips, who examines companies' financial statements and writes the 10-Q Detective blog. Vornado Realty Trust ...
June 16, 2009
A vast array of companies—from homebuilders to home-improvement stores and furniture manufacturers—profited from the U.S. housing boom and then suffered ...
June 11, 2009
Home Depot (HD) offered some encouragement to bullish investors on June 10 when the retailer raised its earnings estimates for the year. The home improvement giant ...
June 9, 2009
Here's a feedback loop that nobody expected: It looks like investors' expectations for an economic recovery could end up delaying that very scenario. Fear of inflation...
June 7, 2009
Stocks of homebuilders have had an impressive run recently, thanks to a stream of improving macroeconomic data, including home sales and consumer confidence, climbing ...
June 2, 2009
By BW Staff The stock market's recent strength has been matched by a concomitant rise in interest rates. While equity investors appear nonplussed about the spike in ...
May 26, 2009
by BW Staff With gloomy headlines ranging from the geopolitical (North Korea's nuclear test) to the housing sector (further declines in the U.S. S&P/Case-Shiller ...
May 19, 2009
Hopes are high that the deeply troubled U.S. housing sector has finally seen the worst of the recession and financial crisis. But new data on May 19 raised questions ...
May 19, 2009
By BW Staff Looks like the "green shoots" for the U.S. housing market are taking their sweet time springing through the soil. One day after a surprising jump in the ...
April 22, 2009
Despite more than three years of deteriorating housing market conditions, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services does not see evidence that the steady erosion of the ...
April 12, 2009
Bank stocks enjoyed a nice rally on Apr. 9, fueled by Wells Fargo's (WFC) surprisingly strong preannouncement of its first-quarter earnings. The KBW Bank Index, which ...
April 8, 2009
A couple of years into the housing slump, there are finally some news headlines to lift the spirits of long-suffering U.S. homebuilders. But that does not mean the ...
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